Remote sonar

mario f · 16-09-2006, 20:33

Several times I've wished I had a portable sounder to check entrances to unmarked canals and anchorages ... Today I saw a humminbird wireless fish finder (Smartcast)... hook it to the line on your fishing pole and cast the remote unit where you want it. The reciever is in a wrist watch LCD plotter, claims a 75ft radius operating range and 100 ft depth.
I had to get it

Tried it in the pool today and worked well from 8ft to 2ft of water, even showed the bottom drain cap of the pool.
Tomorrow I'll try it off the shore and dingy to check out entrance to our canal.
Any one else ever try one of these gadgets ?

**GordMay** · 17-09-2006, 03:29

I liked my Vexilar “LPS-1" Handheld Digital Depth Finder: Looks like a flashlight, with built-in transducer. Goto: http://www.vexilar.com/products/lps1.html

Jentine · 17-09-2006, 17:23

Gord,
I wonder if it would give accurate (fairly) distances in the horizontal mode?

Sunspot Baby · 17-09-2006, 18:46

Jentine:

I have a hand held which, when use under water works well horizontally.

George

16-09-2006, 20:33	#1
mario f Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Gulf of Mexico - MS Sound Boat: Hunter 35 SV Courtney Alexandria Posts: 45 Images: 8	Remote sonar Several times I've wished I had a portable sounder to check entrances to unmarked canals and anchorages ... Today I saw a humminbird wireless fish finder (Smartcast)... hook it to the line on your fishing pole and cast the remote unit where you want it. The reciever is in a wrist watch LCD plotter, claims a 75ft radius operating range and 100 ft depth. I had to get it Tried it in the pool today and worked well from 8ft to 2ft of water, even showed the bottom drain cap of the pool. Tomorrow I'll try it off the shore and dingy to check out entrance to our canal. Any one else ever try one of these gadgets ? __________________ "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” Hunter S. Thompson

17-09-2006, 03:29	#2
GordMay Administrator Site Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W Boat: C.L.O.D. (Cruiser Living On Dirt) Posts: 9,330 Images: 230	I liked my Vexilar “LPS-1" Handheld Digital Depth Finder: Looks like a flashlight, with built-in transducer. Goto: http://www.vexilar.com/products/lps1.html __________________ Gord May ~~_/)_~~ (Gord & Maggie - "Southbound") "If you didn't have time/$ to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"

17-09-2006, 17:23	#3
Jentine Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Massachusetts Boat: Beneteau 393, "Blackthorn" Posts: 492 Images: 5	Gord, I wonder if it would give accurate (fairly) distances in the horizontal mode? __________________ Jim We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." --Aristotle

17-09-2006, 18:46	#4
Sunspot Baby Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: New Bern, NC Boat: Prout Manta 38' Catamaran - Sunspot Baby Posts: 1,112 Images: 14	Jentine: I have a hand held which, when use under water works well horizontally. George __________________ She took my address and my name Put my credit to shame Sunspot Baby, sure had a real good time Bob Seger

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