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Location: De Pere Wisconsin | Is anyone using this technology? The website has some video's that look pretty cool, very confusing at first but after looking at the images for a little while it started making sense. If the ability to learn it correctly is not too hard and the units are reliable it seems like a no-brainer( well, you have to pay for it I guess).
Also ,if you are using one is the transducer "normal" looking? I guess I am asking if it is real big or obnoxious. Thanks! |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | I have a 997SI. Yes- by comparison to a conventional sonar-> expensive. It also takes a bit of getting used to to interpret some of the data/screen displays. Especially with the chart rate/speed versus your actual GPS boat speed.
F. ex a straight concrete wall on a dam will/can look curved & underwater features can/may be distorted depending on the boat speed. However, in split mode - SI/conventional sonar, you can usually sort it out.
Even with all of that, I'd say I really like it, and it's proven it's value in my boat, i.e., versus conventional sonar.
Yes- the SI sonar puck is larger than most conventional pucks.
Al |
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Location: Musky Country | I run two 997csi inback and a 987csi in front and trust me when I say its very helpfull once you understand what your looking at. And the conventional sonar is also one of the best . But of course that is only my opinion,
Good luck this Fall |
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| I run a 997 on the console and a 797 on the bow. I like side imaging. It will give great views of under water structure once you learn how to tune it. I like to use it for reading points, rock piles, saddles, splines, etc. I cruise through an area and mark the interesting structure on GPS and then go back and fish it. I'm always amazed at what the SI slows me that I would have easily missed.
Great for structure. |
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| Johnny, if you mark a spot and make a waypoint on the consoule how do you get that info into the up front 797 unit? like if the win dis howling and you go up front to fish..how do you know your at the spot? Since that info is on the consule unit. |
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Location: Musky Country | The Humminbird Interlink Links the two units together. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Good to hear all of this, as I am ordering a 997SI within the next few days. Anybody run one right next to a conventional sonar unit, like a Lowrance? I have had some concern as to the possibility of cross-transducer interference, but I think it was someone in another thread here on MF that said they ran the these units side-by-side with the Lowrance, and there was no problem.
Thanks.
TB |
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Location: Minn. | Tom, I run a 797 SI and a 111 Lowrance and haven't had a problem. Bothseem to work fine. |
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| I was on my fishing buddies boat today and I was not Impressed with this unit at all... It did not show the structure like you would think, picked up Noise even after setting the filter and was on it's own battery. We even tried to relocate and move the transducer back a little on the motor......This was a Trolling motor transducer mounting. We even went as far as going over spots that we know contain certain structure, Boulders, downed trees, etc. It was impossible to look at the screen and tell what was to the side of you.....Very Confusing .....I'm sure that after Hours and Hours of reading it you may get a better feel of what it is you are looking at, but you will not be exact and that's for sure.... Good Luck if you buy one. |
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