backlash
Captains Club Angler
Registered: March 2005
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 3029
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Review Date: 12/21/2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $649.99
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Large Screen . Shows lots of detail, SD card maps
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Cons:
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Takes alot of practice and study. Large power draw.
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I absoluetly love this unit. I purchased with the Nauticpath USA SD Card which has unbewleivable ocean chart detail. This unit can receive info from oceanic data buoy giving you the speed and direction of the tide in real time. Other map cards can be purchased that give the bottom topography of alot of major lakes around the country. i use the split screen feature that allows you to veiw both the depthfinder and gps at the same time almost exclusively now. The tracking feature is awesome for trolling. If you catch a fish you can the gps to guide you right back over the same spot. This unit has an external anteena and I chose this in the event that I would ever install a T-top on my boat. However, the 522C has an internal GPS receiver for the Bass Boat.
I also have this tied in to my radio using the nmea cables which this unit provides both NMEA 0183 and Nmea 2000 connections.
Software updates are available at no additional charge from Lowrance from timt to time and these are done by the use of the SD card and internet downloads from Lowrance's website. Also there is an ethernet port for future enhancements.
The 520C has a five inch and though this screen is larger than other fishfinders that I used, I feel this is the smallest that you can get away with for a GPS/Chartplotter combo. Also , if you want to go all out this unit is radar capable. My only regret is that I didn't get a larger unit.
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NC Angler Fishing
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