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| Cowboyhannah, in reguards to how the waypoint system is better on lowrance I will try to explain. Brad Nelson and Cory Painter wrote an article on waypoint management in musky hunter magazine last summer. On the Lowrance hds unit a person can go into the icon system and change it and turn off the number/name indicator. For example I can select a weed icon and turn off the number for it. Now I can drop weed icons all day long without my screen being cluttered by numbers attatched to those weeds. I can then switch to a different icon and put then number id back on and all future waypoints will have a number with the new icon I selected "ie a fish icon with a number" With the Hummingbird unit a blue dot with a number will appear with a number. I can then manually change that to a weed with a number. However the very next icon I drop will once again be a blue dot with a number. It would take a ton of time to have to go to the waypoint manager on the Hummingbird to switch each icon. I would sooner be fishing than changing icons all day, not to mention that each icon will have a number. Hummingbird does not yet have this ability in any of their units yet.
I really don't have a brand loyal preference and would like to go with the Hummingbird, but I don't have the time to be working on the computer manually labeling and charting each icon to then re-program back into the unit.
For Brad Nelson the hummingbird might be a viable option - although very time consuming- for your situation with the old lowrance units and your icon/waypoints. I think you could put them on the computer and manually convert each one over and label them for use with the hummingbird.
I think down the road hummingbird may have an advantage with being able to connect with the i-pilot, but that is just speculation.
I plan on going with Lowrance because the waypoint system that Brad and Cory wrote about works better with the lowrance. I also like what I feel is a crisper display. I also prefer the sonar look of the lowrance better. The screen overlay on the bird shortens the screen because it covers over the reading. Lakemaster also has some neat 3d effects for the lowrance units. This can be handy for observing structure and ravines in a lake.
Hummingbird lakemaster has some neat features as well.
I would have prefered to go hummingbird, but the bottom line for me is that I feel the lowrance has more advantages and so that is the way I am going.
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