Thread: Hand Held Gps

I have a Lowrance iFinder H2Oc and I really like it for a hand held unit. One day I hope to by a Sonar/GPS combo (or two!) but for now, this one works fine. I just purchased an external antenna for it so I can pick up a few more satelites. With the internal antenna, it seemed slow to update when I was using it on Lake Greeson to get on top of condos that I had waypointed. However, when my brother, who was watching the GPS, would say that I should start seeing the condo, almost every time just as he was saying it, I would start to see the edge of the condo on the sonar.

The other reason for purchasing the external antenna is the hope that I can see speeds below 1mph. With the internal, I never saw speeds below 1. I'm hoping that more satelites means more sensitivity to movement.

I have Navionics SD cards for US East and US South. I also have a SD card that I keep my waypoints on, and some of the free Enhanced Lake Maps that you can download from Lowrance's site. I just purchased MapCreate 6 for a good price on ebay, but I would not recommend it. I did not realize that it did not have the contour lines for the lakes, like MapCreate 7 does.


Jeff

Originally Posted by sentrysam

Well,I appreciate the info there Chief or master chief or senior chief(litterraly)I was Navy also ,6 years,,but I still am at odds witht this damn thing,sometimes a sign comes up and says my mmc reader writter from Lowrance in not completely installed ,now how in hech can you just halfass install something?????duh???I have two of these map create things,one was for the Iway and the other I purchased from lowrance or cabela's and has 6 shinny disc's with it some say south ,some say north,east ,west,etc,...Now how do I go about takeing the dern map I want off of mapcreate and put into my Iway so I can't get lost anymore or less...?I'm fix'n to donate these things to file 13...ss

Try going here: http://www.lowrance.com/Downloads/Drivers-and-Firmware/
and download the latest driver for the reader.

I use an e-trex legend--I prefer a handheld unit because I can take it hunting or any other place you want to go---my unit is accurate to 4-5 feet if you have enough satelittes to hook up on---i would recommend one that has WAAS capabilities--my first one did not---it seems to increase accuracy

My first handheld had an electric compass in it. My second one did not and I really miss that function.

My next one will have an electric compass.

Originally Posted by sentrysam

Well,I appreciate the info there Chief or master chief or senior chief(litterraly)I was Navy also ,6 years,,but I still am at odds witht this damn thing,sometimes a sign comes up and says my mmc reader writter from Lowrance in not completely installed ,now how in hech can you just halfass install something?????duh???I have two of these map create things,one was for the Iway and the other I purchased from lowrance or cabela's and has 6 shinny disc's with it some say south ,some say north,east ,west,etc,...Now how do I go about takeing the dern map I want off of mapcreate and put into my Iway so I can't get lost anymore or less...?I'm fix'n to donate these things to file 13...ss

I'm with you sentrysam: An just think, before all this came out I could catch Crappie,