gps question

daved

Scout
Jan 9, 2006
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burlington county
When I try putting in the coords for pizza queen I can put them in but 39.6 my gps only goes up to 5 so I cannot input the 6 are they the right coords 39.6920 70.5039? Or am I doing something wrong? I never had any problems before. Thanks Dave..
 

Boyd

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Jul 31, 2004
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Ben's Branch, Stephen Creek
Your GPS is probably calibrated for degrees/minutes/seconds and those coordinates were degrees/decimal minutes. There are 60 seconds in a minute, so multiply the number to the right of the decimal point by 60 to convert. So, for example 39.6920 minutes would equal

.6920 x 60 = 41.52

39 minutes 41.52 seconds

Your GPS may have a menu option to choose between the different formats so you won't have to do the math, see your instruction book.
 
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