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| How often does Navionics release a new version of their regional cards? The current card is a 2010 release. |
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Location: Iowa | usually they come out with one every year. So 2011 should be here sometime.
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Location: Kodiak, AK | I've already got my '11 Premium chips. |
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| Esox, care to explain?
I thought there was no 2011 "chip", but "updates" to the 2010 one. It also was never really explained very well how the "update" would work. |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Well, the "updates" to the 2010 chip becomes the 2011 chip. Updates to the 2011 chip will be the 2012 chip and so on. And there's not always updates on the new year's chip, though the new chip will be out. Some lakes remain exactly the same on the chips for years and years. It takes either a new survey of the lake or user-generated updates that you send to Navionics; either on their site or straight from a Navionics app on your phone (the app is very very easy to do.) Some chips are eligible for a true downloaded update from the Navionics site, but not all. I just tried to update my 2010 FNC chip and it said it wasn't eligible for it. |
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| So, If I get a 2010 card, they update as new maps become available? Is there a cost to do this? |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Yake Bait - 4/24/2011 10:39 PM So, If I get a 2010 card, they update as new maps become available? Is there a cost to do this? For some cards, yes I believe so. There is a spot in the Navionics web store where you can go an download a program to your computer that'll read charts and update a chip from THE previous year. (Meaning, I don't think you can go update your chips from 2005 or 2009 for example.) Of course "terms and conditions apply" as I went to update my 2010 Fish N Chips chip and it said that particular chip wasn't eligible for the update. So I'm rocking a 2010 FNC on the bow and a 2011 Premium on the console. |
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