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LakeMaster Product Lake Lists for the LakeMaster Digital GPS map cards.
Contour XD lake list
ContourXD Map Lake List by State - Download PDF Added
Automatic aerator control
Automatic Aerator Control | Bass Pro Shops
Iphone usability thread
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/testi...ity-forum.html
The 587c HD DI units were a Black Friday unit as were a few other DI models. Seems that they were quite popular and are still available at some retailers. I do not know if they will be added to the regular line-up for next year or not. If they are they will get added to the Humminbird web site. These should have the same sonar specs as the other DI units: 788ci HD DI, 597c HD DI, 581i DI, 570 DI, 385ci DI and 345c DI.
The default mode for the unit when it has only a power cable connected to it is to go into the "point of sale Simulator mode"...This is so that when no buttons are pressed after two minutes or when the unit is powered down that the unit will rest the menus to certain predefined settings to show the product off to John Q. Public.
The ‘forced’ Simulator mode...found by pressing the MENU button during the splash screen, is for practice using the unit and making changes to the Nav Data, viewing mapping information and making menu settings changes and having all of this remembered or retained by the unit when the unit is powered off.
Pixel densities...
The different size screens have different pixel densities.
The 798 has 31,170.5 pixels per square inch.
The 898 has 17,533.4 pixels per square inch
The 998 has 12,755.7 pixels per square inch
The 1198 has 8,858.2 pixels per square inch
In the world of sonar displays, the 798 is HD.
Snapshots and recordings are saved directly to a SD card that is inserted into the unit….
-Remove the SD card from the unit and insert it into your pc card reader…a window should open showing files on the SD card…
-Create a new folder on your pc's desktop named “HB”….
-Transfer the files from the SD card to the “HB” folder…
-Click on any of the files that have a “.png” extension and your pc’s picture viewer program should open it to view the “.png” snapshot….
The recordings can be viewed in a third party software called Humviewer….
-Download Humviewer here…HumViewer - Viewer of Humminbird sonar recording files
-When it asks if you want to “run” or “save”…click “save”….
-When it asks where you want to save…navigate for it to download to the new “HB” folder…
-Open the Humviewer program that has now been installed…(I think version 67 is the latest)…
When Humviewer opens….
-Click “Open” in the top left of the screen….
-Navigate to the “HB” folder until you find the files that you transferred from the SD card….
-Click on any file with a “.DAT” extension (or “.dat”…I don’t remember)…
-The recording file should load into Humviewer…(sometimes this takes a few minutes depending on how long a recording you made)….
Lots more info on Humviewer here… HumViewer
If you need more help …ask here or pm me….
Why fish arch....(Lowrance.com sonar tutorial)
The reason fish show as an arch is because of the relationship between the fish and the cone angle of the transducer as the boat passes over the fish. As the leading edge of the cone strikes the fish, a display pixel is turned on. As the boat passes over the fish, the distance to the fish decreases. This turns each pixel on at a shallower depth on the display. When the center of the cone is directly over the fish, the first half of the arch is formed. This is also the shortest distance to the fish. Since the fish is closer to the boat, the signal is stronger and the arch is thicker. As the boat moves away from the fish, the distance increases and the pixels appear at progressively deeper depths until the cone passes the fish.
If the fish doesn't pass directly through the center of the cone, the arch won't be as well defined. Since the fish isn't in the cone very long, there aren't as many echoes to display, and the ones that do show are weaker. This is one of the reasons it's difficult to show fish arches in shallow water. The cone angle is too narrow for the signal to arch.
Remember, there must be movement between the boat and the fish to develop an arch.
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Here's an "un-talked-about" image size phenomenon in SI discussions...
Structure image ratio size ...SI vs 2d
In my 1197:
A brushpile that shows as the size of a golfball on the 2d screen...shows as the size of a quarter in the SI screen...
In a 798:
That very same brushpile would show as the size of a quarter on the 2d screen...but show as the size of a peanut in the SI screen...
Structure images are roughly 1/4 size in SI as to what you are used to seeing in 2d...And if you "split" the screen... Structure images are smaller even still...
Here is a 3-way split view from my 1197 ...notice how small the brushpile shows in the SI view as compared to the 2d and DI view...
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Buy the biggest screen you can afford...Unless you want to look at "peanut sized" brushpiles...
Rickie
The 798 comes with this xducer...
XNT 9 SI 180 T :: Humminbird
You can trade in the unopened compact xducer for the HDSI xducer here...
XHS 9 HDSI 180 T :: Humminbird
The HDSI xducer has different size 455kHz crystals than the stock in-the-box Compact xducer which can give better quality 455kHz SI images...
The HDSI xducer also has crystals for the 800kHz SI beam but they would not be utilized in the 798 (because the 798 does not have the circuitry needed to use the 800kHz beam ...)
Some say the upgrade to the HDSI xducer improves the image quality of the 455kHz SI image that the 798 uses...
Conversely, some say they see no difference in image quality...
Maybe someone that has upgraded their xducer to the HDSI xducer for their 798 will chime in...
Below is a depiction of the 455kHz SI beam and the 83/200kHz 2d beams that are included with your 798..
The SI sonar beam is in the shape of a thin slice..
The 2d sonar beams are conventional cone shaped...
For the SI ....Each time the unit pings, the unit takes the echo information in that thin slice and plots that echo information on the SI image across the very top of the SI image in a thin line...
The very next ping echo information is plotted at the top of that same SI image... Pushing the previous echo Information down on the image...
It is this pinging, plotting, stacking (of the thin lines of echo information on the image) .... That builds the SI image on the screen...( it is not a camera snapshot of the bottom)...
The DI in the 798 is a computer generated image created from the data received from the Si crystals in the xducer (it will not be as good of a quality image as can be obtained from a unit that has "dedicated DI crystals" in the xducer...
Keep the chart speed matching the boat speed... 1mph=1 chart speed, 2mph=2chart speed...etc...
Set the SI range to a "left and right range" of about 60-70 ft... Less will make structure look bigger - more will make structure look smaller....
You can set the SI to left OR right only to make structure look bigger...
Choose a pallete that is pleasing to your eyes... Your eyes are different than anyone elses...
Take snapshots and recordings and view them at home to study the images for uninterupted learning of image interpretation...
Use the Si sensitivity setting as a brightness control for the SI image ... Different water conditions/bottom compositions will lighten and darken the SI image...
Ask lots of questions... Pm me if need be...
It is possible to take advantage of HB's xducer trade in policy and trade in the SI compact xducer (that comes with the 798) for the HDSI xducer (and pay the difference)...some users see a image quality improvement with the 455kHz crystals in the bigger xducer.... (you willl not be able to take advantage of the 800kHz crystals in the HDSI xducer even with the exchange because the 798 does not have the internal circuitry to read the data from the 800 kHz cryatals)...
Rickie
455kHz SI beam
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83/200kHz 2d beams
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AC to DC converter
Sunforce AC/DC Power Converter:Amazon:Automotive
DSI @ -10db
455 kHz: approximately 70⁰ (side-to-side)
800 kHz: approximately 50⁰ (side-to-side)
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The cumulative displacement filter
The Cumulative Displacement Filter
Doug Vahrenberg's instructional videos...
Doug Vahrenberg Humminbird - YouTube
I spider rig contour lines...
Early in the year ... Before the water reaches 55 degrees...I'll be following creek channel ledge contour lines...
When the water reaches 55 degrees.. I'll experiment with contour lines parallel with the bank...
I'll pick a depth I think the fish will be in and stay on that contour line for several hundred yards....
If I don't pick up any fish... I'll move the boat over 2ft deeper or shallower... And either backtrack my previous pass or continue on down the new contour line...
Once I find what depth the fish seem to be targeting... I'll stay on that contour line until the fish quit biting or until I want to move to a different area and start all over...
Spider riggin contour lines gives the benefit of setting the baits on the shallow side of the boat to a certain depth... And setting the baits on the deeper side of the boat to a certain depth and covering several hundred yards of water without constantly adjusting bait depths...
Rickie
I keep the "SI Enhance" window up on my screen anytime I am viewing SI...
This gives the abilitiy to change the "SI Sensitivity" setting without (opaquing out) any other split view that I have up at the time...
I use the SI Sensitivity setting as a "brightness" control for my SI image (as different water conditions/bottom compositions will make the image brighter/darker..)
SI Sensitivity up will brighten the image...
SI Sensitivity down will darken the image...
I frequently change this SI Sensitivity setting as my SI image changes in brightness...
Here is a screenshot of the "SI Enhance" window overlayed onto the SI image... I had to adjust the sensitivity to 19 to get this mud bottom to reflect enough sonar echo to get an acceptable image...
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Rickie
598ci HD SI Combo
video=youtube;-jhV4RCPkZ8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhV4RCPkZ8[/video]
url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhV4RCPkZ8]ICAST-Humminbird 598 - YouTube[/url]
QUOTE=Humminbird_Greg;1983484]
Basically it is a 798ci HD Si unit minus the second memory card slot, the preset View buttons and no Ethernet connection. Otherwise it should have the same display and sonar capabilities.[/QUOTE]
HB waypoint management manual...
URL]http://store.humminbird.com/media/document/WMG.pdf[/URL]
You will first need to download "Atomic Web Browser" from the itunes app store...(I use the paid version...not sure if this works for the free version)...
Atomic web browser has an adblock feature....
1. Open Atomic Web browser
2. Go into the "Settings"
3. Tap "Ad Block Settings"
4. "Enable Ad Block" ---move to "On"
5. Same page... Tap "Edit Ad Block Filters"
6. The next page that opens is the list of Ad block URLs already in Atomic Web app....
7. Tap "New Filter" at bottom left
8. Copy and paste the following URL into the field... i](this is the URL that allows CC to show the blue Facebook login button at the the top of every CC page... Adding this filter basically blocks CC from loading the facebook button URL from loading onto the page)...[/i]
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/image...ook_login.gif*
9. Tap "Save"
10. Back out of the app and open a CC page (or refresh the one you may have open)....the blue facebook login button should not load onto the CC page...
Repeat steps 1 thru 10 above with the following URL for the Atomic app to block.....i](this filter blocks the facebook "Like" button from loading onto the CC page under the CC "Reply to Thread" button in an open thread)...[/i]
http://www.facebook.com/*
The Di sonar in the HB Si units is a blend of both the left and right Si sonar:
*- take the right Si sonar and rotate it 90 degrees clockwise.
*- take the left Si sonar and flip it horizontally (mirror image) and then rotate it 90 degrees clockwise.
*- overlay the two images and you have a Di sonar image.
Fish depth vs return depth...
url=http://forums.sideimagingsoft.com/index.php?topic=4446.0]2-D Sonar - depth of fish when they are on the sonar cone's edge[/url]
From Greg on another forum...
The AS-Si-DB-Y cable is just that: a cable. There is no switching from one transducer to another either within the cable or the unit.
When you use the AS-Si-DB-Y cable you are disconnecting the 2D portion of the Side Imaging transducer and connecting up the DualBeam transducer in its place. To the unit it all looks like one transducer. The 2D portion of the Side Imaging transducer no longer has an electrical connection to it and so does not operate.
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Alumaducer
url=http://www.radarsonics.com/AlumaDucer.htm]AlumaDucer[/url]
From Greg in a different thread...
i]When you adjust any of the Sensitivity menus you are not turning up or down the power of the transmitter in the unit; rather you are telling the microprocessor in the unit to show more or less ‘stuff’ on the display of the unit. This ‘stuff’ can be returned sonar signals from fish, structure and the bottom. With enough adjustment you can also influence the color that the unit will use to show these ‘sonar targets’.
Sensitivity menu – affects the 2D or conventional sonar only. This menu will adjust the 200kHz and 83kHz 2D sonar together. If you are using the “Quad Beam” setting for the Transducer Select menu, then this menu will also adjust the 455kHz sonar returns from the Side Beams of the QuadraBeam transducer [Note: the Side Beams of this transducer and its sonar are different than the Side Imaging Beams of the CSi transducer].
83kHz Sensitivity – affects only the 83kHz 2D sonar and is used to balance the sonar returns from the wider 83kHz sonar versus the narrower 200kHz sonar. This is why the settings for this menu run from -10 to +10. If you don’t think that the 83kHz sonar is showing enough sonar returns, or you think that these sonar returns are being shown with a strong enough color; then set this menu to a higher setting.
455kHz Sensitivity – affects only the 455kHz Side Beam sonar returns (only accessible when the Transducer Select menu is set to the “Quad Beam” menu setting which is used when the unit is connected to a QuadraBeam transducer) that are shown when viewing the Side Beam View on the unit. The settings for this menu run from -10 to +10 as well.
SI Sensitivity – affects only the sonar returns that are displayed in the Side Imaging View or any of the combo views that are showing the Si sonar. On those units (not the 798’s) that can use more than one Si sonar frequency; this menu will change the sensitivity level of whichever Si sonar frequency has been selected in the Side View Frequency menu.
Down Sensitivity – affects only the sonar returns that are displayed in the Down Imaging View or any of the combo views that are showing the Di sonar. On those units (not the 798’s) that can use more than one Si/Di sonar frequency; this menu will change the sensitivity level of whichever sonar frequency has been selected in the Side View Frequency menu.
Where you set the sensitivity menu? This is a user preference setting and will vary from one person to another. Don’t think you are seeing enough stuff or if you want to see every sonar return no matter how small? Than turn the appropriate sensitivity menu up. Think you are seeing sonar returns from small fish and waterborne debris? Than turn down the appropriate sensitivity menu. Many use the Si and Di sensitivity menus as a contrast control, while some ‘old school’ flasher users will set the 2D sensitivity menus so that they can just barely see a second sonar return.[/i]
Here is the HB test plotted differences in the AS GR16 vs the AS GR50..
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Here is the 24 Plotted Positions of fixed mounted receiver, Notice how much better accuracy the GR-50 is over the previous receivers, This is the 95% Garmin Test that shows the new receivers 95% of the within 2.5 Meters of reporting the same exact location. Civilian satellite has improved but hardware and restrictions to hardware still exists. The better you are with marking the initial location the easier it will be to return, time after time.
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Here is the HB test plotted with the discontinued AS GRHA...(If you find one for sale...you better buy it...
img]http://forums.sideimagingsoft.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=229.0;attach=421;i mage[/img]
More HB GPS info here...url=http://www.bbcboards.net/humminbird-sonar-gps/172969-gps-mapping-information-resource.html]GPS and Mapping Information Resource[/url]
I have to give Doug Vahrenberg some credit here...
He has a wealth of information on bbc about the HB units..
From Greg on another forum...
*- Go to the “Nav” menu tab in the main tabbed menu system.
*- Scroll down to the “Waypoints, Routes, Tracks” menu by using the Down Arrow.
*- Open this menu by using the Right Arrow.
*- Scroll up to the “Options” submenu by using the Up Arrow.
*- Open this menu by using the Right Arrow button.
*- Select the “Select All and…” menu by using the Down Arrow.
*- Use the Down Arrow to select the “Export” option.
*- Use the Right Arrow to select “Yes” to answer the question shown on the unit display.
HB trolling motor interference kit...
url=http://store.humminbird.com/products/323062/TMC_1]TMC 1 :: Humminbird[/url]
da'ducer apparatus
video=youtube;-kqZw18X1k4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kqZw18X1k4&sns=em[/video]
GR50
CEP (50%) 4.92 feet (1.5m)
95% 13.12 feet (4.0m)
GRHA
CEP (50%) 2.95 feet (0.9m)
95% 9.51 feet (2.9m)
img]http://forums.sideimagingsoft.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4639.0;attach=7214 ;image[/img]
1100 series cable collector
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800-900 series cable collector
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Updating a HB unit with a SD card....from greg on another forum..
Best bet is to:
- Export all of the navigation data to a memory card
- Download the Nav Data from the memory card onto your computer using the HumminbirdPC program
- Erase/Delete all of the Nav Data from your unit (use the “Format All Nav Directories” menu if your unit has it. It is under the Setup menu tab.).
- Reset the menus in your unit to the factory defaults (using “Restore Defaults” menu which is under the Setup menu tab).
- Update the software in your unit.
- Upload the Nav Data from the HumminbirdPC program back onto the memory card – selecting to “Replace” the Nav Data that is on their.
- Load the Nav Data back into your Humminbird unit.
Sending the navigation data through HumminbirdPC will allow the software to help screen out corrupt navigation data.
xray of the HDSI xducer...
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This is the Schematic of how the AS SI DB Y Cable Splits the 2D out of the Standard Compact SI or HDSi Transducer to a second 2D only ....like XP 9 20
HDS screen size comparison...
img]http://www.fishtec.co.za/touch_display.jpg[/img]
HB serial number explaination...
(Posted by Greg on another forum....)
Year, Month, Day plus the line it was tested on and the number unit it was that was tested at that station for that day. Two examples here; the first is for a unit produced before 2010 and the second is after 2010:
A.) 5030305-0046 Manufactured on March 3rd, 2005. 46th unit on test station 5.
This uses the YMMDDTT-XXXX format where Y = Year, MM = Month, DD = Date, TT = Test Station, XXXX = sequential number unit tested on the station
B.) 10021501-0079 Manufactured February 15th, 2010. 79th unit on test station 1.
Same format as above except for two places used to show the year.