Just picked up a new Helix 9 SI and I'm just wandering how people are liking their new units. This should be a huge upgrade from my old lowrance Mark 5x portable lol. Looking forward to getting it hooked up and on the water soon.
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Just picked up a new Helix 9 SI and I'm just wandering how people are liking their new units. This should be a huge upgrade from my old lowrance Mark 5x portable lol. Looking forward to getting it hooked up and on the water soon.
i installed a helix 7 in the new boat so far its been looking good .
I thought they were going to be the best thing since sliced bread but was disappointed with my buddies as it lags when trying to scroll on screen and only loads a very small portion of map(can't look at map a couple kms from where you are fishing). So either he needs to change something or Humminbird needs to improve the technology before I will bother to get one.
I have a Helix 9 SI on my boat and got it out last week for the first time. I haven't played with the SI and DI much, but it reads the bottom accurately at 48 mph and I like the autochart. I have the Zero Lines card and a Navionics card. The base maps do suck for Canada and the Navionics isn't much better. I like the Autochart and it seemed to be doing the trick for me. I'm coming from a Lowrance HDS7 Gen 1.
Got to try out my helix 10si last night. All in all I like it a lot so far. I found it pretty easy to use and it's leap years ahead of what I'm use to using . I did have trouble with the auto chart like others mentioned. It seems like you can only see it when the screen is zoomed way out. The lake I was fishing wasn't every on the screen so that sucked . Actually I'm surprised they are selling us units with only American lakes, hopefully they have an update for this issue. I do have a backroads chip for my GPS and it has fairly decent lakes of Alberta on it and I think I might try it in the unit and see if it will work. As far as the unit works though it performed great and the side imaging is something else. I haven't used the di to much but it will be useful I'm sure. I'm going to have a look to see if there is any software updates right away though .
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Never celebrate till you got your knife stuck in it !
Some times you catch the Big fish, some times you get stuck in Chip
How's everyone liking their new Helix
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