Location: 31 | muskyrat - 2/23/2014 7:23 AM
Going to the boat show today. Will check out the new units. Why do people split the screen with the standard color LCX and HDS? Why not go full screen HDS? Is the cone wide enough or do you have to use it with side scan to get the full picture. Guess I'll ask the Lowrance dude.
It's to view both the down and side scan at the same time. I mainly use the HDS for the 3-D down and side scan, but it also makes an excellent place to rest my arm while I play with the LCX icon/trails buttons too :). I kind of like the idea of the side scan stretching across the bottom Cyber, and will check that configuration out this spring.
In case someone is wondering; I basically run the LCX units because they're big and cheap (already had), and having 2 of them on board (1 up front) still provides redundancy in case one goes down. They still work excellent for the 2-D stuff, and this way I don't have to mess around with the conversion and resulting numbered waypoints.
If anyone has figured out a way to convert old icons to non-numbered waypoints please share, because one of these years I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go all HDS.
The reason I have the screen set up like that with the helm LCX is to have the GPS screen size as large as possible with a large MPH overlay, the small sliver of sonar comes in handy on the same screen too, especially when running.
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