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This thing is a nightmare - i have one of these on my boat, and Nnothing is intuitive. Nobody wants to work with 5 levels of touch screen in order to get the info they want, and the screens for engine monitoring give minimal information. I don't recommend all-in-1 screens to start with but this one is particularly difficult to work with. I don't think SIMRAD ever tested this on a boat, in real world. Looks more like a cubicle engineer built the whole thing.
Simrad seems to be a little more complicated to use as a new user. Lots of options to play with say vs garmin. I personally am a garmin user but considering swapping to simrad.
I went with the hx890 over the hx891. The bluetooth headset support is super gimmicky and if you are using this with a paddlecraft, it is completely pointless using that over the handheld radio to begin with.
The last chartploterr/sonar I had was on a circa 2015 28" Grady Sailfish and it was so much less intuitive and far fewer features than the 5" UHD that I must say I'm impressed. For $300 it's as easy to use as google maps. I'm not going to need ocean depth sonar features for my 17' Whaler. It's amazing how the technology has improved while the price has come down. A larger screen with touch screen features would be nice, but is overkill for Columbia and Willamette River duck hunting and fishing.
I just received my handheld. I got my mmsi number free due already being a member and i put in the identification of my boat to be recognized but what about when im on my jet ski and i use two different jet ski
Viking hit it so out of the park I don't even think they can out do this. There's plenty of "luxury yachts" that don't come close the the beauty of this sport fisher.
Looks cool, especially with Mercury electric. But price is way too high, particularly with electric outboard. And size and weight necessitates treating it like a regular boat (trailer, boat ramp, storage, etc.) but with much less capability. Get an inflatable Saturn Kaboat for an order of magnitude less money, more portability and storage options, more payload, and better performance from a small outboard.
Thank you for the good info. Just bought hds 9 live 3 in 1. I'm operating it as a stand alone unit. My question is if I'm running just the 3 in 1 transducer what channel port on the back should it be plugged into. I was told channel 2. Any help grateful. Thx
I have a 14ft jon with a 6hp backwater mud motor. Grab bar is the only mod i had to do. $1800 all in and i feel like its already paid for itself in fun factor and ive had it 4 months. Small boat buyers are small budget buyers usually and extremely value conscious. This misses a lot of marks.
Wow just beautiful love the teak and wood work she is a work of art now do a video of her getting up on plane no music tho just pure diesel sound magic
