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| I'm in the same boat, sorta speak, on the GPS combo thing. The older units are fine for me, but they're becoming harder to come by.
If you're starting over, and have the space on the dash, you could consider getting two smaller units. Run one on sonar, the other on GPS and a chip. The one that has GPS.....get the "guts" for it (wires, mount, etc.,) and install and make a separate docking station on the casting deck. When you're up front casting, take the GPS unit with the from your dash mount and install it up front. Pretty easy, two screws and 2-3 wires need to be undone and redone up front.
A walleye friend of mine does this with a pair of 522 or 322 Lowrances, can't remember which, and it works slick.
My situation is that I have a b/w Lowrance global map GPS only chartplotter bolted to the dash, and my ice fishing sonar, a Lowrance x67c next to it. I want (need) a GPS combo up front, so I'm sorta confined to getting a decent enough sized combo for the deck. I'd be more than fine with one of the pre-HDS Lowrances. They do all I need. But even the lcx-20s are going for $300+. The used 332s and 522s are going for 2/3 to 3/4 of what they were new on ebay, and for how many thousdands were made.......there's not a ton of them out there. Maybe there were, and I just missed the big wave. I only started looking a month or two ago.
Edited by muskie-addict 2/7/2010 7:47 AM
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