Wayne P.

Yep

I was catching bass in less than 4' and some in less than 2' Friday with 55 degree water temp. The "big mammas" were eating. Saw several shad schools at a distance in less than 3' depths with the 360. Water to dingy to visually see them.

No, only the center of the 200 kHz pulse is used to measure the depth and that is active all the time you have a depth readout.

The illustration and notes on the left side of page two pretty much state what most transducers require to START. Then adjust if needed as described by testing on the water.

Do you have enough space on the other side of the keel or closer to the keel? Didn't the transducer come with installation instructions that indicate its exposure to water flow?

Where your arrow indicates is perfect, centered between two hull stakes.

No transducer should be in that location for any speed faster than idle. The transom step is forward of it. All you get is cavitation in that location. It needs to be near where the livewell intake is and the transducer itself needs to be partially BELOW the bottom of the hull. It took until the 2012 year model Trackers to finally install a transom transducer so it can work properly. Your hull is no different.

You may have make a mistake. You should use the proper transducer for the application--a trolling motor PUCK. It has extra internal shielding that the transom version does not have to help with possible RFI from the trolling motor.

I don't have a SmartStrike card, but have used the SmartStrike map layer with a couple of Chart Select lakes. Used it with a Helix 5 CHIRP DI GPS G2, Helix 7 CHIRP SI GPS G2, and several larger models. Other than Lakemaster mapping, SmartStrike is a fish location predictor. If you are clueless to determining a pattern, it will give you an idea of where to look based on the criteria you select. Refer to the description on the Humminbird website.

The G2 models have a lot more processing power and can handle more "stuff".

It is to connect a cable to a computer to do software updates rather than use a memory card. It is used to connect a GPS antenna directly to most units, but the Helix 5 and Helix 7 do not have power for the antenna, so a hardwire installation using a AS YC cable for the antenna and power is used with that port. An Ethernet port is hour-glass shaped with 5 pin holes.

My first boat was a Sears 3210 jon boat. It was OK with just me at <150 lbs. as long as I did not stand up much. Fell out of it a couple of times. Max weight capacity was 250#

Auto Chart and Auto Chart Pro are computer software that creates HD mapping from sonar logs or converted Auto Chart Live. You have to copy the data to the Zero Line Card to use it in a Humminbird. The two computer softwares come with a Zero Line Card. IF your unit had built-in Auto Chart Live, you can use the Zero Line Card to do Live directly the card or transfer the data in the unit's memory to the Zero Line Card.

No, just what is listed. There will be a 2017 issue released soon and may have the waters you need. There are three levels of maps on a card. Standard High Definition Survey Lakemaster High Definition Survey

Using a Navionics+ card to activate an UPDATE card was discussed on *** and that wasn't known if it can be done and a Navionics+ card is not listed as a card for that.

No you don't miss anything by not using the whole frequency sweep except maybe some target separation. I don't use CHIRP, don't see any difference between single frequency and CHIRP in the depths I fish. Just CHIRP for testing. Humminbirds don't have any frequencies in the 140 kHz range with their transducers. The ONIX has several other frequencies for AIRMAR transducers.

The fish think its early Spring, most I caught were in less than 5' today. Water temps about 50 degrees.

No you cannot copy a Lakemaster or Navionics map card.

The Helix 7 G2 is not networkable. The G2N is

This is Humminbird's 2D CHIRP Sonar frequencies with their transducers and the adjustment highlighted for the high end of High: The 455 kHz Imaging frequency CHIRP range is 420 kHz to 520 kHz The 1200 kHz Imaging frequency CHIRP range is 1150 kHz to 1275 kHz I don't have the 800 kHz Imaging range numbers yet.

May want to change the background to White instead of Blue. That is why the letters don't show.

Don't know about other brands but with Humminbird, you can also select how much of the CHIRP frequency band to use and what part of the band to use. Example: the top 10, the middle 10, or bottom 10 frequencies of a 30 kHz wide band.

Garmin has made a major effort in the freshwater market in the past 5 years. Competition is a good thing.

Do not need it with an Ultrex. No different than using a transducer on a Fortrex. Attach the transducer to the shaft and leave slack for the motor turning left and right 180 degrees each--same as a Fortrex. Same mount type as a Fortrex. The shaft is not pulled through the mount to stow the motor like with a Terrova, Uterra, or Xi5

Check Garmin's coverage and you may like what it has.