Thread: Meade 4/24

What hummingbird did you get? (love my 798si)

Heycharlie, I have the same model. Have you had any issues with the GPS? When I'm on Meade it shows me a couple miles on shore.

I don't use GPS often, but it worked great one time when fog rolled in on Anna.

Originally Posted by bigshaw929

Heycharlie, I have the same model. Have you had any issues with the GPS? When I'm on Meade it shows me a couple miles on shore.

I didn't think that any gps had maps for the Portsmouth owned lakes. I know that Hot Maps does not.

Originally Posted by TapOut64

I didn't think that any gps had maps for the Portsmouth owned lakes. I know that Hot Maps does not.

You are right and the ones for the Norfolk owned lakes are very poor. That's why I've been working on detailed maps of all five lakes. Plan to have them all finished before summer gets here. They are pretty impressive. I've been using Dr. Depth, and I'm glad I got it when I did since the program has been sold and absorbed by Navionics. Now you will have to buy their $400 chip and help them build their data base to get maps of those lakes.

Mike

Originally Posted by bigshaw929

When I'm on Meade it shows me a couple miles on shore.

That is due to the fact that Navionics didn't draw in Meade or Cahoon (if you are using a Navionics chip).

Mike

It's GPS fixed location that is inaccurate on my unit. While I don't get contours I would like to mark spots but my unit has me out of water somewhere. When I first got it, it seemed to work fine now after one of the updates it's not even close.

Having a map for these lakes would be awesome. Especially for those like me still trying to learn the lakes so I stop hitting stumps

Here is how my map for Burnt Mills is coming. This is how it looks on the PC Desktop:


Here is how the same data looks like in 3D (I can actually spin it around to any angle to help understand what the bottom actually looks like):


This is what it will look like on the GPS/Sonar on the boat (all the lines will connect when I am finished):


Mike