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I am looking to buy a GPS unit for a boat i am purchasing. The problem is that i am in college and trying to scrounge enough money to fish tournaments. So i have no cash to spare. I want the best GPS for the money. I am looking at it as a carrer investment, LOL. I do want color. Other than that the board is open and i have never owned GPS before so i don't know where to begin. But i do want the most detail i can get, also i mainly fish Central and Southern Kentucky Lakes, but i do occasionaly travel on tournaments to areas such as Pine Bluff, AK, or Lewisville, TX. And i want a GPS unit where i can add those random lakes as i need them even though i will probably never be there again. So i don't wanna have to buy a card for each one of those areas every time i wanna go to a new lake. The boat is Equiped with Lowrance X-15 and LMS-160 and X-65. But I will probably sell those to upgrade. I don't care about color on the sonar but i want it for the GPS.
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are you looking for a handheld or dual system?
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Hey man, I am pretty frugal, so it just took me 7 months to find the right deal and bang for my buck. I purchased an Eagle Seachamp 2000DF about a month ago from Boatersworld.com on ebay. Brand new with GPS/WAAS reciever, warranty, color, 7in screen,50/200 khz transducer, speed/distance log sensor, best deal you will find. 599.99 Shipping included. Now to me that is still alot of money but it will pay for itself in no time, at least that is what I keep telling my wife.
Good luck.
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Also I purchased the Fishing Hotspots map chip from amazon for 65.00, brand new. All Lowrance products I believe are compatable.
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what is included in the fishing hotspots chip and how detailed is it?
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no i want a large screen permenant for my boat.. well it would be kool if i could mount it in my truck but i don't know if that is possible.
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i have the hot spot maps on my garmin gps. it's the same map that you would buy at wal-mart and such. the single maps not the book. pretty good map all and all.
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how much are they per lake
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what boat are you gettin??!
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they come as regions instead of single lakes. mine has the east region which is pretty much every major lake east of the mississippi. it was about $100 when i bought it i think it's cheaper now though. you just load back and forth from your PC to your gps.
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The Garmin MapSource Fishing Hot Spot's CD comes with all the maps on it. However, you must purchase an UNLOCK CODE for each of the THREE REGIONS. EAST, CENTRAL and WEST regions. Each Region has most of the large lakes in several of the states that fall within that particular region. The EAST Region has IN, KY and you will find Patoka, Monroe, KY and Barkley Lake in that Region's lakes.
The cost is still a bit over $100 per REGION. That's cheaper that it was three years ago when I got my Hotspots CD. Back when I purchased my CD there were TEN Regions that had to be unlocked.
If you wanted to save money you could buy the total package Unlock code and unlock all the maps on the CD for about $300 bucks. So actually the price has not moved very much over the past 3 years. It still costs about $300 to get all the Lake available on the CD unlocked.
PS you can have the CD and unlock one region and still see the lakes that are contained in the other regions. But those other lakes won't have the contour lines shown. Only when you enter the UNLOCK code for that Particular CD's data will you be able to see the contour lines on those lakes in that region.
Regards,
Moose1am
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