Garmin Blue Chart Reader HELP

[olly_love]

I have aquired a Garmin bluechart (old style) card reader (USB)
and am struggling to get anything to connect to it, what programs have people used before, im trying to get marks and tracks into it?
thanks
Olly

 

[Ripster]

Are you trying to get Homeport on a PC to read a chart using a usb card reader? Is the chart on an SD card? Current Garmin charts are recognised by the Homeport software as image files and need to have the right name and format for the software to pick them up? Or are you talking about something different?

 

[Ravi]

I have aquired a Garmin bluechart (old style) card reader (USB)
and am struggling to get anything to connect to it, what programs have people used before, im trying to get marks and tracks into it?
thanks
Olly

I have an old Garmin Hand held 72c plotter with blue chart technology and I use Garmin Mapsource to transfer charts, tracks,waypoints,routes,etc.
I am not familiar with the card reader technology but I hope that helps.
Incidentally, there are a lot of cracked copies of Blue charts/map source on the internet with full world maps. Only mugs, (like me), actually bought their horribly expensive charts!