Electronics Help And Troubleshooting

[Troy Gregg]

If you don't know anything about mapping, where is the best place to start learning? I have recently bought 2hds touches w/ insight. never have done any mapping before but want to learn. rather slow minded, so would like to keep it simple.

Trytofish,

Inshore Mapping is probably the easist portion of the HDS to learn. Really all you are going to use it for is tracking where you've been and Marking way points. The finer Details of Mapping are used for Offshore navigation and can get much much more detailed. There are a few things to learn, like Clearing waypoints, editing waypoints and saving tracks if you are running river channels, especially with the lake being 10ft low.

I can show you some of this stuff at bass pro if you wanna come on down, I usually work the evening shifts there

[Troy Gregg]

Troy

The HDS 5X Gen 1 I have mounted on the TM is a good unit for dropshotting but has updates available that from what I understand can't be downloaded unless you have another HDS (non X)on your network. Do the update(s) for this unit really improve performance or visuals and is there any way around the need for the network to update?Your seminar in some format suggestion could be a great help to a lot of us.

Troller, Really the updates are for the mapping side of the HDS, If your unit is doind exactly what you want and you are not adding structure scan to it you will be ok leaving well enough alone.

If you do want to expand the system, go ahead and bring it to bass pro as well, we can hook it up and update it there. I would like to offer this at these proposed seminars, however I do not have any dates or formatting done yet.