DHS: Your old GPS may not work after April 6 2019

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DHS: Your old GPS may not work after April 6 2019

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This could be interesting :shock: My Garmin's are pretty new , the Raymarine could be a issue
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prowlersfish wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:40 pm This could be interesting :shock: My Garmin's are pretty new , the Raymarine could be a issue
Im going to pissed. All of my fishing numbers are on an older faruno 1650 and 1850. Need to figure out how to transfer to the new simrad system.
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Even relatively new chart plotters may require an update -- mine did. My B&G char plotter is a couple of versions old, so I was happy to see that Navico provided an update for it.
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I contacted Garmin by email , waiting to here back .
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Ah the memories of that fateful moment when the clock ticked to Midnight on New Years eve 1999........
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Re: DHS: Your old GPS may not work after April 6 2019

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Garmin replied

Hello Paul,

No there will not be any issues. Let us know if you have further questions.





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