Thread: Hummingbird Wide Side Sonar

This is what HB has on their website .

"WideSide® Sonar
(with optional-purchase WideSide®
transducer)
Your 700 Series™ Fishing System also
supports WideSide® sonar with the
purchase of an additional WideSide®
transducer. The WideSide® transducer is a
specialized "side-looking" transducer that
is extremely useful for bank fishing or
looking for bait fish in open water. The
WideSide® transducer uses three different
sonar elements that transmit signals to the
left, right and straight down from your
boat. The downward beam is 200 kHz with
a 24° area of coverage. This beam
maintains a continuous digital depth
readout from the bottom directly beneath
your boat. The side beams are 455 kHz with
a 16° area of coverage. The side-looking
elements can be used independently, or
together to locate targets near the surface
of the water on either side of your boat."


This transducer is different than the QB Plus transducer. HB site says it is a 150 degree view. This would seem to be equivalent to side imaging just without the better graphics of the SI units.

Just wondering if anyone has this on their boat and how it would work.

Originally Posted by WarrenMN

Ok, the Quad beam looks down at about 35 degrees while it sounds like that wide scan shoots out at close to 90 degrees. To me it's look like it'd be hard to tell any thing a part at that angle with out side scan.
WarrenMN

The wideside has 3# transducers. 1-24*down and 2-16* to each side. The pdf manual of the 717 shows each transducer that can be used and the view of each. Different screen views are available for each transducer. With the wideside the default is left and right side viewable but either right or left is selectable.
Here is the pdf if you want to see it. I'm planning to get one next week.
This is the only fish finding system I've found that will do me any good.
Fin
http://store.humminbird.com/download...le=717_727.pdf