Garmin 5008 hidden menu ?

[Andy Bav]

We have a Garmin 5008 and the lat / long is showing --/--/-- ( or something like that) in the bottom left hand corner.

The plotter knows exactly where we are as it plots our moving position on the map, and we can create waypoints etc, so fine for navigating etc, but as we are hoping to stretch our legs this season I am obviously thinking of the insurance / reassurance that our precise position will give, in the event of an emergency.

Handheld is obvious solution, but am sure there must be a hidden menu buried in the system that has turned it off, or it may never have been on in the first place ?

Any ideas.

Couldnt resolve passarelle issue by the way :-(

 

[Baddox]

Are you able to check in the set-up that it is set to WGS84 chart datum? That may help, or perhaps see if there is a page that shows the satellites and confirms a GPS fix.

 

[Andy Bav]

Are you able to check in the set-up that it is set to WGS84 chart datum? That may help, or perhaps see if there is a page that shows the satellites and confirms a GPS fix.

Thanks. Found the page that shows satellites and confirms a GPS fix. Haven't looked at chart datum tho'. Have a friend out in Spain that may be able to check that before we go out again in a couple of weeks.

 

[vas]

I have a 4008 (effectively the same but with hard keys) can try the menus in the evening or tomorrow (mine shows coords not that I need them tbh!)
Do you have a DSC radio? if so, does it show coords? If so, why bother?
My Garmin VHF200 when turned on, picks up the coords from the NMEA2000 bus and shows lat/long on it's tiny screen. That's enough for me.
Maybe (slightly far fetched!) you have two means to pickup gps data and haven't explicitly stated which one to show on screen?
Is it only one plotter on the bus?

cheers

V.

 

[Andy Bav]

Thanks V.

It's a non DSC radio, and only plotter on the bus. We did a firmware update 2 weeks ago when we were out in Spain, and I have a feeling that reset factory defaults, and looking at manual, WGS84, is a default setting - but I may be wrong on factory reset though. The lack of lat / long was the reason we did the update.

We have Raymarine speed, depth and autopilot connected, and actually managed to set a course on the plotter which the autopilot followed, so the kit is talking to one another. We also systematically removed each connection to ensure that there were not any conflicts.

It's probably one simple sub menu somewhere - hope it's the "Baddox" button :encouragement: