Flasher interference, what is the best brand to buy?

[thefarmer]

Not that this hasn't been discussed before but just looking for some ideas, maybe some new equipment out this year? Last winter had 3 vexilars running in the same house all with interference rejection in 35 FOW. No matter what settings we tried we could only get 2 to work at the same time. Would a marcum or hummingbird put out a different frequency and be unaffected by other units? Are these as good or better then a vex?

[BK19]

I've seen marcum and birds together working great it seems like I could never get 2 vexes to work with each other

[bogwalker]

Humminbird. This is one of their strong points.

[herefish101]

marcum also has the best interference rejection, i'v only herd the birds are good, as for vex, everyone yells at me when turn on the lx5, seems like the vexilars interference rejection is not as good, they are all great units, ice fishing without a flasher is like flying blind

[WhiskeyPete]

I fished my MarCum LX-3tc in a 6x8 portable yesterday. When Casey turned on his Vexilar FL-18, the MarCum went nuts. I quickly corrected the problem with 2-3 touches of the IR button. He had to correct his gain a bit, but we fished successfully all day after figuring each other out. Both good machines, both caught some nice eyes!

[Scott K]

I have fishied with many people with many differrent models as long as it has IR, I never ran into a problem getting rid of interference with anyones flasher. Although I havent even had to try when running a Bird, and a Marcum, or a Vex.

[linetrash]

i have a friend that uses a showdown. i am looking to get an lx-3 or 5. i know this one will cause my friend plenty of headaches. i was wondering what units out there might not effect him as bad?

[Scott K]

Humminbirds shouldnt cause any interference with it, but I havent ever fished with anyone with a Showdown, so I can not verify that for sure.

[tearin' lips]

Vexilars always have more problems with my Lx-3 than anything else, but it is easily corrected once you use the IR to tune each of the units in. There is really no bad unit out there. My buddy just bought a bird and he loves it. This is my third season with the lx-3 and I wouldn't go back to vex. I love the adjustable zoom sooo much!

[Big Dave2]

I am a lot more successful in tuning out other units interfierence with my FL-20 then I ever was with my FL-8.

I have fished in the same house with FL-8s, FL-18s and marcums.

[JSK76]

I have had a ICE 55 and a LX-3 down the same hole just to see what would happen and it's not even an issue, since they work on different frequency.

I have been fishing this year with my LX-5 and my new 5.6 version, Showdown and have both completely interference free with a little adjusting.

[Jigging Joe]

I talked to the Humminbird rep at the ice fishing show, he said the Humminbirds will not interfere with a Marcum or Vexilar, they will interfere with another Humminbird, he said its the nature of the beast, the Vexilar and Marcum have the same or close to the same frequency, thats why they interfere. I've always had interference with my fl-8 and other vexilars, so now I bought an ice-45 and will keep my fl-8, depending on who I go fishing with, thats what flasher I'll take.