Choosing a GPS help.

I have an old lowrance lcx-15mt. It isn't fancy, not color, doesn't monitor my engine or mpg's but it just always works.... Maybe not much help but it's all I have for ya.
I'm sure some folks with deeper pockets will post up on the newer stuff soon.
 
Northstar 951X is the hot ticket, you will not find one better, just so happens, I have one for sale :zip: If you are interested, send me a PM.I tell all my customers to get a Garmin, the 441 and 541 are both nice units, they are color and come with built in charts. I was in West marine yesterday and happended to look at one, i couldn't believe the price, they have gone up quite a bit since hte last time I looked at one. Lowrance is a hit or miss, my friends that install depth finders/gps' for a living tell me all the problems they have with them, but the fishing boards are all about them

PS, I also have an older Ray marine rc320 for sale cheap
 
Lotta peeps using an ipad for navigation and I can see why...I put a navionics app on my new iphone and it's fookin' GREAT!!...has all the detail and MORE of the chart functions that my chart plotter has in the boat...arrow follows the course over water, displays speed over ground and the contrast, picture quality is world class...and when not in boat, can be used for laptop computer...so it's a two-fer that's hard to beat...comes in black or marine white and there is a boat mount you can get for it...fo shizzle!!...:clap:
 
I've been very happy with a small Lowrance M68c color fishfinder/plotter. Compact and more features than any human can ever use. Mounted on helm dash. Internal antenna works fine and I use "shoot thru hull" transducer. Paid $399 for it years ago.

I don't see it in West Marine catalog this year but "Elite-4" model looks like a replacement. $370 You can get a greyscale version for $250.

Whatever you get, I suggest you get something designed to be mounted in a boat.
 
LOL talk about overkill. I have a Raymarine Radar w/CP and GPS built in, Plus I have a Garmin that I love... Old, funky, but still works beautifully... and lastly, I have an iPhone. But when all is said and done, make sure you have a good compass with you also.
 
A freind of mine has an older pacemaker that has an enclosed cabin, it cruises at about 9 knots, he has a program for his laptop that uses an external gps antenna that plugs into his laptop that runs the equivalent of the navionics platinum with all teh detail and google earth images, he only paid about $350 for the whole set up(not counting the laptop), if you have a slow boat with an enclosed cabin thats not going to get bounced around a lot, this is the way to go
 
I have been using the Garmin out of my wifes car lately...suction cup sticks right to the windsheild...you just have to be sure to put it in "off road" mode.
 
yeah.............. uh...... I have a new one of those now..... I was using mine on dad's bass boat testing the new motor...... I bumped it with my hand and it popped off the mount and went in the drink... I tried to grab it and actually touched it in the water and then it, along with 8 years of saved addresses, was gone :sad:
 
smokeonthewater said:
yeah.............. uh...... I have a new one of those now..... I was using mine on dad's bass boat testing the new motor...... I bumped it with my hand and it popped off the mount and went in the drink... I tried to grab it and actually touched it in the water and then it, along with 8 years of saved addresses, was gone :sad:
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see my prevoius post...."designed to be mounted in a boat"
 
I just downloaded Navionics USA ON MY HTC EVO!!! Just to have it, what a kick a$$ download!!!! To bad cell service sucks 20 miles off the beach. My cell download is almost as on the albemarlegood as the gps on the albemarle!
 
You guys are sayin' the iphone's chart downloads won't work out of cell service...RATS!!...1st I've heard that, but I don't understand it...it's GPS generated data overlayed data from the Nav...where does the cell signal come into play??...:head:...not disputing it, just don't understand it...
 
from what i ve read so far small devices wont work out of cell service because we depend on cellservice to provide location on the device but other larger devices have built in gps recievers so REEL you might get"REEL" lucky and your ipad tablet may have a reciver built in!!!
 
As long as we are on the subject of the wonders of smart phones has anyone used the traffic layer on google maps??.....if you are using google maps for navigation you can turn on a traffic layer.....i always thought it was based upon current reports or what have you which i assumed would be terribley inaccurate.....On our last trip to NC during the summer we turned it on and could see every slow down on I-95 as we traveled ....It was UNBIELAVABLY accurate.....I did a search on how it was done and apparently everyone on the highway at the time using google maps is sending their location and speed back to google....they take that information to show graphically where the slow downs are..... it didnt help you go any faster but it was nice to know things were going to speed up around the next bend.
 
RWilson2526 said:
As long as we are on the subject of the wonders of smart phones has anyone used the traffic layer on google maps??.....if you are using google maps for navigation you can turn on a traffic layer.....i always thought it was based upon current reports or what have you which i assumed would be terribley inaccurate.....On our last trip to NC during the summer we turned it on and could see every slow down on I-95 as we traveled ....It was UNBIELAVABLY accurate.....I did a search on how it was done and apparently everyone on the highway at the time using google maps is sending their location and speed back to google....they take that information to show graphically where the slow downs are..... it didnt help you go any faster but it was nice to know things were going to speed up around the next bend.
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I sent a pm to Mj for that unit I wanted to research a little more before I commited to buying it Im waiting to hear back from him. That standard horizon seems like a nice unit.


I use my google nav. on my EVO all the time. and yes it is amazing how accurate they are. My footprints app. shows what room im in in a building!!!
 
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