Thread: Down screen fish finders

Are the new Helix models networkable? I know the ones last year were not.

helix 7 DI gps. I would appreciate your imput Rickie

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Are the new Helix models networkable? I know the ones last year were not.

I know the Helix 10 is.

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Are the new Helix models networkable? I know the ones last year were not.

9, 10 and 12 all are.

Rees is right as usual. 9,10,12 are networkable. The 7 is not. Would not make a big difference to me as I would not know how to do it. You boys in Miss are a lot more high tech than me. I'm barely past using a big lead sinker and string for depth finder. I'm a decent football coach and pretty fair crappie fisherman but even though I live in Alabama I don't work in Huntsville for NASA. I wish I was more technologically adept but the Lord gives us different gifts. Tight lines to all you guys

Coach, its pretty simple if you are just hooking 2 things together, after that it gets a little more complicated, switch box ect ect.

Networking only takes a cable and a few settings changes. No big high tech stuff needed.

Originally Posted by footballcoach

Rees is right as usual. 9,10,12 are networkable. The 7 is not. Would not make a big difference to me as I would not know how to do it. You boys in Miss are a lot more high tech than me. I'm barely past using a big lead sinker and string for depth finder. I'm a decent football coach and pretty fair crappie fisherman but even though I live in Alabama I don't work in Huntsville for NASA. I wish I was more technologically adept but the Lord gives us different gifts. Tight lines to all you guys

I went several years with my fishing buddies in my ear about me using low-tech locators.My argument was this: I don't want to have to learn how to use them.

I started out basic with a 788C gps/2d. As I got better at setting it up, I went to better and better units, buying good used units that fit my budget. Well, Ol' BRM blew my budget for several years and I have rigged out my new Excel with new 1199HD and a Helix10. I also have an ace in the hole who happens to be my 1st cousin, rnvinc (Rickie). Any time he steps in my boat, the 1st thing he does is start playing with my Humminbirds. His 1st question is---"What do you want to see?" Anything else is just clutter and is hidden wherever that delete button puts it.

With so many new models coming out, a lot of good used core HB units are showing up for sale at a fraction of their new costs. You asked about networking? My units are networked and all it is is a cable that is much too expensive for what it is that is hooked to both units. In the network mode, they share info. In my case that info is waypoints on one are shared with the other but not stored on both. Only problem is if you forget about the sharing and turn one off, all waypoints that were saved on the unit that you turned off will not show up on the unit that is running. Put all waypoints onto both units, you will get duplicate marks for each waypoint.

I will say the high-tech electronics has made me a MUCH better fisherman than before I started using them. I have no desire to go back to the Super60 of my past.

BTW, my brother lives in Huntsville and works on the Redstone. Not for NASA. He also could care less about why the Humminbirds work, just that they help us catch a lot of crappie.