Side Imaging

[davidsa]

Guys, I do 80% of my fishing anymore December to end of May and tend to be fishing banks more so then off shore structure. If I'm sitting 75 feet off shore line in 8ft of water imaging the bank, will I be able to get picture all the way up to say shoreline?

I have looked at the demo of the 797 and just that alone indicated to me a significant learning curve to even make sense out of what the unit is telling me.

[Fishin_4_Fun]

F4F,

You say you have a lot of trouble with your SI equipment. What kind of trouble is it?

Also, others out there, do very many of you have the same problem, or does F4F possibly have a lemon??

Thanks

I've got a 797

New out of the box the built in navionics charts wouldn't load so I had no maps.

Next problem was the unit would not save a waypoint by selecting a target on the si scan and would reboot itself every time I tried it.

Next problem was I couldn't hit the waypoint button at all without the unit rebooting.

Current problem is while navigating the top half of the chart will go blank for several seconds at a time before reappearing.

I've spent $20 a pop on shipping and insurance sending it in for repair. The last time the sent me a reburbished unit I have now. For $1100 I'm dissapointed in the quality. It's a good unit though when it feels like working.

[HiDefFisherman]

Thank you for the information. I feel for you, as it seems not many others are reporting these kinds of problems. You may be like my wife. I believe her body generates an "EM" field that seems to affect any electronics she uses. We share this computer, and she has a ton of problems, and I have very few. She has trouble with her satellite receiver for TV, while I have none, and if I check hers, it works fine for me. I also worked with another individual who had the same problem. Her work computer crashed for what seemed to be no reason at all. I was there training her on some software, and she could barely keep the software running on her machine. I would take control, and have no problem. ANNNNDDD, it's not like I am advanced in anyway...LOL. She would hit the exact buttons, or press the buttons, in the exact order I would instruct, but the machine would just shut down.

Hopefully the replacement will work, and it will have been a case of your having a lemon that has now been replaced. Otherwise, if you do produce one of these EM fields, you will soon experience the same type problems. I hope that is not the case.

It will likly be a couple of years or so before I buy a new boat, and will undoubtedly wait to get the SI unit until then. I hope before then I will have the chance to fish with someone who has one of these units and see how they work first hand.

Good luck, and tight lines.

HDF