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Another question of the HDS 5..........If I purchase the power node to use my 2000 antenna with this unit, will that speed up the processing time at all???......just wondering how much the internal antenna taxes the processing time.

I just purchased the HDS 5 with U.S. basemap.......I doubt any other units are very similiar to these units. My last unit was the lms 332c and after a day on the water with the HDS 5, I'm a little disappointed. To me, the processing speed is much slower than my last unit. I just did the software update for the HDS units, but still it's slow in comparison. Also, my old lakemaster chip doesn't give me anything more really than the basemap. I suppose I'll get used to using the unit and would like to know if there's a way to turn off the transducer while the unit is still running???........I don't like fishing shallow water with the sonar on and when I want to put the boat up on plane, I have to wait at least a half minute for the unit to load back up if I have it turned off.