Thread: Side imaging front to back

Originally Posted by filletfetish

I've often wondered why you couldn't have a transducer that actually put out two cones.

Say the TD is mounted to the TM. As long as the cones were actually shooting forward and slightly down than it should be able to read the distance and changes in the water column with each relative ping. I say two cones because this way you would be able to get a better return, because they would be coming at slightly different angles. I think it's brilliant...I just wish I was technical genius...

The HB Quadrabeam is similar to your idea ...

It has a "Left cone" and "Right cone" allowing the image to be displayed similar to the SI image with "left cone echoes" displaying on the left of the screen image and "right cone echoes" displaying on the right of the screen image....

Fish and structure returns are displayed as the "traditional 2d cartoon-like" returns...but in the screen display format of what we normally associate with an SI image format...





Rickie