I am fishing my first tournament this weekend and will be using my Lowrance Hook 2 5X Split Shot GPS fish finder for the first time as well.  

 

I've done some research in preparation and have coordinates of certain areas of the lake that I will prioritize.  I would like to save these spots as waypoints that I can then navigate to on Tournament day but my problem is as follows:

 

The coordinates I have are in this format:  41°24'12.2"N 2°10'26.5"E

My Lowrance Fishfinder seems to use this format:  41 24.2028, 2 10.4418

 

I checked on Google Maps and both of the coordinates above are exactly the same - they are just in two different formats.

 

Does anyone know how to convert the first waypoint format into the other ?

 

Please let me know if there is some type of coordinate format converter website that does this or let me know if I can provide more information here if it's not clear.  Thank you so much !

 

Joe

 

P.S.  I called Lowrance Technical Support and they told me I can only drop a waypoint on the water but when I got off the phone with them I was playing around with my fishfinder in my home and I was able to create a waypoint for my house AND I am able to edit the coordinates and then save it.  I just need to know how to convert the coordinate format I have (41°24'12.2"N 2°10'26.5"E) into the coordinate format that Lowrance seems to use (41 24.2028, 2 10.4418)

You've got the degrees and minutes already

41

24

the number after the decimal - multiply  by 60 to get the seconds

.2028*60=12.168 seconds.

Divide by 60 to go the other way

MN Fisher - THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!

Cannot tell you how much I appreciate that - makes perfect sense, just could not find anything anywhere that said what you just did

 

Thanks again, 

 

Joe

Might double check, but in many units you can go into settings and choose the degrees/minutes/seconds format that you want to use on the unit. Would be a simple one-time change of a button so you wouldn’t need to manually convert any of them, now or in the future.

 

DD.DDDDD which is Degrees, Decimal Degrees

DD MM.MMMM which is Degrees, Minutes, Decimal Minutes

DD MM SS which is Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and sometimes decimal seconds SS.SS

It has been a long time since I have worked with coordinates so forgive me if I am wrong.  I am pretty sure that you are dealing with utm and lat lon coordinates.  You can Google utm conversion aps.