Export GPX Waypoints

Use this when

You want to load the contacts from a recording onto a handheld GPS unit or chart plotter as named waypoints — so you can navigate back to the exact spots on the water.

Before you start

Open the recording in the viewer. Go to the contacts panel and confirm at least one contact is listed. The Export Contacts (GPX Waypoints) option stays greyed out when the recording has no contacts.

Export GPX waypoints

1. Click Export in the viewer toolbar.
2. Choose Export Contacts (GPX Waypoints).
3. A save dialog opens pre-filled with contacts.gpx.
4. Choose a folder and click Save. A confirmation appears: "Contacts exported".

Transfer to a GPS device

Transfer the file to your handheld or chartplotter using its standard GPX import method. Refer to your device manual for the exact steps.

Each contact arrives as a waypoint named after its label (or classification if no label was set), with a red flag symbol.

What you should see

After saving, the viewer briefly shows "Contacts exported". On the GPS device, each contact appears as a waypoint at the coordinates it was marked, with the contact's label as the waypoint name.

If it does not work

• "Export Contacts (GPX Waypoints)" is greyed out — no contacts exist in this recording. Add contacts in the viewer first.
• "There are no contacts to export" — same condition, caught at export time.
• Some contacts are missing from the GPX file — contacts with zero-zero coordinates are skipped. These were marked while the Humminbird had no GPS lock. Their position is unknown and cannot be written to the file.
• Waypoints import to the device but show wrong names — the label field was blank when the contact was marked. The export falls back to the classification name. Edit the contact label in the viewer, then export again.