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By Jason Y. Wood | Posted March 2013
Add a CHIRP sounder system, in a bracket-mount standalone unit. Raymarine Dragonfly may be the buzz on the fishing docks this spring.
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By Jason Y. Wood | Posted February 2013
PCs can be a great addition to your electronics array, so long as you pick the right one.
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By Jason Y. Wood | Posted January 2013
Charts and fishfinding functions share the screen seamlessly in the Lowrance Elite 7 HDI.
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By Jason Y. Wood | Posted January 2013
The Si-Tex SVS-750 is a dual-frequency digital echosounder with 600-watt output.
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted March 2012
CHIRP transducers meet their match in sounder electronics, and the view below comes into sharp focus.
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By Jason Y. Wood | Posted March 2012
XM WX Satellite Weather derives data for the images from multiple sources to ensure good resolution.
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By Jason Y. Wood | Posted March 2012
Terrafin’s Web-based software service gives you Sea-surface temperature (SST) data for your cruising range and beyond at an affordable price.
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By Alyssa Haak | Posted March 2012
Good data is key for anglers who want to capitalize on fishing conditions...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted August 2011
The FLS 2D is one of two newly introduced products from Echopilot, a company that has been producing sonars for nearly 20 years.
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted August 2011
A commercial-grade bottom profiler for the serious sportfisherman or diver. The WASSP rolls seven fishing tools into one...
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By PMY Staff | Posted April 2011
The echo range of fishfinders includes the echo 550c.
Garmin Fishfinders
Echo Series
Garmin has introduced a complete new range of modestly priced fishfinders called...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted January 2011
The Latest, But Is It The Greatest?Side-scan sonar can find structure, but can it find fish?Teamwork in action: Using side-scan, down-scan, and regular sonar to help pinpoint a...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted June 2010
“Elite,” according to my dictionary, means “the most powerful, rich, gifted or educated members of a community,” which makes it rather an odd choice of name for a range of five-...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted March 2010
What's the secret to piscatorial success? Simple. Just follow the birds!Terns and pelicans don't go fishing for fun. They do it because of their need to survive. And because they...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted January 2010
Most of the time fishfinders work great on auto mode. But not always.Fishfinders don’t just find fish; they also find the places fish are likely to be, like reefs, wrecks, and...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted November 2009
The Interphase IScan V90 is vertical-scanning look-ahead sonar, made in the USA. ($2,388) www.interphase-tech.com.Whenever and wherever we go offshore, it's a fair bet that the...
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By Tim Bartlett | Posted August 2009
Apollo II HDOceanView Technologies has added a new dual-sensor camera to its line-up of night-vision systems.As the name suggests, the Apollo II HD is a high-definition version of...
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By | Posted October 2008
Raymarine has radically redesigned its A-Series of small plotters and plotter/fishfinders, adding AIS tracking, internal “high-sensitivity” GPS receivers, Sirius Satellite Weather...
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By Ben Ellison | Posted August 2008
Airmar product manager Mark Reedenaur is showing off the company's floating test lab."Come on, Mark, can't you just tell me which is the best fishfinder?!?" I couldn't help making...
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By Ben Ellison | Posted August 2008
Raymarine DSM 400Raymarine's powerhouse DSM 400 black-box fishfinder weighs 27 pounds, contains four independent digital sonar transceivers, and can pump up to 3 kW of ping power...
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By Ben Ellison | Posted August 2008
Lowrance Broadband Sounderowrance has not lost its innovative scrappiness under Navico ownership. In fact it was the latter's CEO, Jens-Thomas Pietralla, who dubbed the new...
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By Ben Ellison | Posted June 2008
Raymarine E Series V4 Multifunction Navigation Display SoftwareIt was pure luck that my April column on maintenance ("Servicing the Circuitry") illustrated how easy it is to...
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By Ben Ellison | Posted September 2007
Raymarine A60The 5.7-inch, dual-function A60 is only a minor model shift from 2006's 6.5-inch A65, but electronics designs can age well, particularly when software and value...
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By | Posted July 2007
The iWay 600c is a navigate-anywhere portable plotter featuring a bright five-inch touchscreen and a 30-gigabyte hard drive nearly filled with cartography. That includes Lowrance'...
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