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the program on local data. Just enter waypoints where you know both the correct Loran and Lat/Lon information. Be

sure that this is from a known source that used a Loran and a GPS on the same spot. Published data is questionable

unless the provider guarantees that real hardware was used to collect the data and that it was not itself a conversion. We

have seen many lists on the Internet that contained poorly converted Lat/Lon information. Loran sets provided very poor

conversions except maybe for Northstar units.

Once these calibration waypoints are in your data file, use Tools>Calibrate Conversions. It gives you the option of

either calibrating the government tables or using the calibration data directly (single ASF per file). See the chapter VI

Reference section for more information on this.

12. Getting Waypoints to/from your GPS

If you have a GPS that uses a data card for charts, chances are it also allows you to save your waypoints and tracks to a

card. With a writeable card in the GPS, use its menus to save your valuable information to the card. Then put the card in

a card reader attached to the PC and use Tools>Import Waypoints and select the appropriate GPS model. This will

then import those waypoints into the program and create a new file to hold them. You can then combine that new file

with any you already have and purge out duplicates. You can reverse the procedure with Tools>Export Waypoints to

put your waypoints into the GPS. If your GPS uses a proprietary card for which you cannot find a reader, consult us.

13. Getting Routes and Tracks from your GPS

You can use the above scheme for Furuno, Garmin, Lowrance, and Raymarine GPSs to retrieve route or track

information. In limited cases, you can also load routes into the GPS, but not tracks.

14. Planning a Trip or Route

In the Trip Planner mode, the screen is split into two spreadsheets. The upper one shows the source file and lower one,

the trip plan. You just click on waypoints on the file spreadsheet and they will be placed on the trip spreadsheet. You

can also type in the waypoint numbers and they will be placed on the trip plan. In the trip planning mode, the range and

bearing is from one point to the next unlike the regular mode where it is all points to the reference point.

15. Showing range and bearing

Range and bearing is normally shown from each waypoint to the inlet or reference point. The program allows you to

double click on the range or bearing of any point to make that the reference point. This makes it easy to find the range

from that point to all others.

16. Setting the Range/Bearing reference

Whenever range and bearing is shown in the spreadsheet, the reference point for the calculation must be known. Initially

it will be either the one in the file preferences or the last reference point used. You can set a new R/B reference from

Display>Set R/B reference. This form has places to enter the reference point as Loran, Lat/Lon, or a waypoint

number. Alternatively, you can pick one from a list of already saved reference points. Lastly, you can set it directly on

the spreadsheet by double clicking on any waypoint's range or bearing making that waypoint the reference point.

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