![]() ![]() The pricing on the Hook Reveal SplitShot is very attractive when comparing then to Garmin and Humminbird. The SplitShot series comes in 5-inch and 7-inch sizes ( great for kayak fishing). The Hook Reveal SplitShot is a 2-in-1 fish finder, with High CHIRP, and Lowrance’s industry leading DownScan. Lowrance DownScan continues to produce some of the best sonar imaging of structure and bass on the market. It has all three sonar features you need to scan structure and then locate fish on that structure with FishReveal. It is a long and narrow plastic skimmer transducer with a metal bracket. Sonar – The Hook Reveal has new transducers, the first being the fittingly named “Reveal TripleShot Transducer”. For a higher screen resolution, you can move up to the HDS Live series that has the SolarMAX HD panels with a higher pixel density. The pixel counts are pretty standard at 800×480 for everything. Hook Reveal 7 TripleShot vs HELIX 7 CHIRP MSI GPS G3N – The HELIX 7 has MEGA Imaging, networking capabilities, and AutoChart Live mapping.ĭisplay – Each Hook Reveal display is the new SolarMAX, which is more easily viewable in direct sunlight than ever before.Hook Reveal 7 TripleShot vs Echomap UHD 73sv – The 73sv has a touchscreen, 10,000 LakeVu maps, and QuickDraw.Hook Reveal 9 TripleShot vs HELIX 9 CHIRP MEGA SI G4N – The HELIX 9 MEGA has MEGA+ Imaging, the clearest imaging on the market, plus 2 SD card slots and AutoChart Live.Hook Reveal 9 TripleShot vs Echomap UHD 93sv – The 93sv has a touchscreen, 10,000 (vs 3,000) pre-loaded contour maps, and QuickDraw live mapping.I would have listed some of the prices, which seem good, and other features, but I’m headed out the door to Raymarine and Navico demos, including StructureScan 3D. Garmin is also introducing a slew of its own transducers, including the GT52HW-TM seen above showing what it can do with “high-band 150-240kHz CHIRP traditional, 455/800 kHz CHIRP DownVü and CHIRP SideVü.” And they’ve added full CHIRP to the echoMap line, which will also be able to do Quickdraw charting and/or work with Panoptix. “Everyone has their own definition of CHIRP when it comes to this level of fishfinding,” he tried to say diplomatically, but Garmin’s is “more like Airmar’s” with transmissions that cover full ranges like 90-120 kHz. It will only do the LiveVu, not the 3D mode (that needs a big screen anyway), but marine product manager David Dunn - who showed off the original Panoptix, SideVu, and the VirbXE integration at NMEA - told me that PS21 testing is looking very good.ĭunn is also excited about the “full CHIRP” that Garmin is putting in the new value oriented Striker fishfinder series, which also include GPS for waypoint tracking (not charting). What’s not clear yet is how Quickdraw users will be able to share their charting with other users or with Garmin, but I know they’re working on it and trust that the process will be easy when offered.Īnd yes, Panoptix users will be able to collect Quickdraw data almost as if they had a real cartographer’s multibeam sonar, and, what’s more, Garmin will soon offer a new smaller and less expensive PS21 trolling motor transducer. You can also add point of interest information to your Quickdraw chart, set depth range colors and other custom niceties (as illustrated by the screenshots I wish Garmin would make larger). Quickdraw is instantaneous, like Live SonarCharts on the Navionics app (or Humminbird’s Autochart Live). With Navionics SonarCharts for any marine display or Navico’s Insight Genesis, you have to submit your collected soundings and later download the processed results before you can see them on your MFD. Quickdraw is no surprise given the tussle over Navionics SonarCharts for Garmin, but naturally Garmin added some special sauce… Yup, you’re going to be able to easily collect soundings as you cruise, sail or fish and, if you want, you can watch the resulting high def sonar chart materialize in your wake, as suggested above. Garmin put up a Marine 2016 site this morning and one thing many current Garmin owners will be excited about is the Quickdraw Contours sonar charting that will come to many current Garmin displays in January. ![]()
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