Hummingbird GPS Waypoint Installation Instructions

Hummingbird 987C SI

Loading Angler Products Fishing Hotspots to your Hummingbird GPS is easy. Here’s how you do it. I’m using the 987c SI GPS but they all work pretty much the same. If you have problems with yours please don’t hesitate to contact us for assistance.

 Note: It’s important that you tell us when you order Angler Products Fishing Hotspots what type of GPS you’re using. A Hummingbird takes a different file format that a Garmin or a Lowrance does.

 The Hummingbird unit has a SD/MMC card slot for loading preprogrammed charts and also for transferring trip information between your PC and your GPS. When we send you the Angler Products Fishing Hotspots file you will load it to a blank SD/MMC card on your PC.

  (Note: If you don’t currently have a SD/MMC card reader / writer you can get one at your local electronics store for between $15 and $20 and they plug into your USB port or your PCMCIA slot. Blank SD/MMC cards are also available at these outlets for very reasonable prices. I use Fry’s or Best Buy around here, but they are available most anywhere they sell electronics, computers or cameras.)

 You will also need to download Hummingbirds PC Program once you’ve registered your unit with them. To register you unit go to: http://www.humminbird.com/public.asp?ID=528

 Save Waypoints and Routes to Memory Card

 Using the Hummingbird PC program and a card reader/writer you will export information from your unit to your card, then into the computer using the PC program.  

 Loading Waypoints and Routes from Memory Card

 Same is true to update the files; you save them and export them from the computer to the MMC card.  Place the MMC card in the unit and then you would go under the Nav tab to import the updated files into the 987 unit.

 That’s all there is to it.

 Tight lines to all!!

 Capt John