Re: Fishfinder/GPS question?????
 

No when I get my new vhf next year then I will hook it up.
It's all about baby steps ;D

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"Baby steps"..."I'm SAILING, I'm SAILING!!" ;D ...

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I bought a Lowrance 330 C last year at Cabellas and feel it is the best value for the dollars spent. Has external Satalite unit and is both sonar and GPS. I looked at the Navionics chips and found they were $200 for each section I fish and would have easily had to buy at least 2 charts at $200 each. Instead bought the Lowrance $100 chart. Put it in the machine and it blew up... Checked the rev of my software, 1.0.0 and called Lowrance. There is an upgrade. They sent to me on a chip...Great Support.. with instructions and it worked perfectly. Now have East Coast, West Coast and all the countours and real time bouy info via satellite. My choice is Lowrance.

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yeah head, yhat bouy info is awsome! dont have to guess where the water is moving or how much. just point and click! eheard a rumor that they will be gettin water temp and salinity data from the bouys soon. that might help track the reds. they love the brackish water. as far as mounting in the car i know my garmin handheld doesnt work very well in the car. but, it doesnt work very well anywhere. maybe within a hundred feet or so. i was a land surveyor for 14 years till katrina hit. when laying out wells (and gettin payed to fish) in venice, la my 337 was always within a few inches of my $30,000 trimble RTK unit. thats perty damn close

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Lead_Head is the $100 Lowrance chip called Map Create? Bill Mc ;D

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http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap178c/
this is what i have and it works great

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I have the monochrome version of that. Works good but I'd like to upgrade to a larger screen.

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Here's the 7" version Lowrance, about a grand.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/Mnutz/low7.jpg

and the 10" version is really nice, but almost 2 grand! :o

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/Mnutz/low10.jpg

I'd love to extend the top of my console and flush mount the 10".

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I thought my 5" was nice, 10 inch screen :o
What is map create, and how does it compare to Nautic Path which is what I originally bought for my 3500 C. That I did not like because even with the software update to 1.7 ( most recent) it showed land and water as white when you zoomed in 30 miles or less. Very diificult to read for me. The navionics gold+ changed all that.

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Here is the little bit I know about Map create. *Its a program you load on your computer and create an area map that you will frequently use. *This info is then downloaded onto one of five memory chips to be placed into you FF/GPS unit. *I was wondering how good is the nautical information. *I had read on Thehulltruth that it was more of a land map program. *Bill Mc *;D