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Title: Getting .son and .dat files off of Helix 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N onto mSD card
Post by: William Rodney on April 10, 2021, 04:40:37 PM

Does anyone have advice on getting .son and .dat files off of a Helix 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N onto mSD card (Samsung 120 GB capacity)?

Title: Re: Getting .son and .dat files off of Helix 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N onto mSD card
Post by: rnvinc on April 10, 2021, 09:50:33 PM

Humminbird units record directly to a SD Card into a folder labeled RECORD  ...

In this RECORD folder on the SD Card will be the SON data to be used in a 3rd party viewer  ...

Rickie

Title: Re: Getting .son and .dat files off of Helix 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N onto mSD card
Post by: rnvinc on April 10, 2021, 09:52:48 PM

If you attempted a recording with a map card in the unit - it is very possible your recording is now on the map card  ... which can corrupt the map card  ...

If this is the case you will need to open the map card in File Explorer and remove the RECORD folder from he map card root directory  ...

Rickie

Title: Re: Getting .son and .dat files off of Helix 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N onto mSD card
Post by: FishinLite on April 11, 2021, 08:17:47 AM

If my memory serves me correctly, your Helix only supports microSB cards 32GB amd smaller. Your card memory size may be your problem...

Title: Re: Getting .son and .dat files off of Helix 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N onto mSD card
Post by: William Rodney on April 11, 2021, 11:36:17 AM

OK, so I guess I need a 32G mSD card, for starters. Thanks! 8)