Hummingbird/Vexilar compatability

[zeke7434]

Has anyone heard of any issues with interference between Vexilar and Hummingbird Ice series? I talked to a guy today and he said that you will have to fish quite a bit away from each other? Any one have experience with this? I currently have a Vexilar FL-20 and my son wants a flasher and I can purchase a Ice-55 for a very reasonable price.

[SwivelDigger]

You will be just fine fishing with a bird. Marcum and vex are on same frequency but bird is different. Birds will mess with each other but not the other 2. The other 2 will mess with each other.

[B-man715]

Like Swiveldigger said, the two play very well with eachother. But I have noticed with the Bird, is that you will get a little interference if you are fishing around multiple (3-4 or more) Vex's.

The birds IR doesn't eliminate it, just changes the speed of the interference (how fast it twirls around the graph).

But it is minimal compared to what the vex users are dealing with if there are that many close to eachother.

[silverbulletguy]

I fished in a house with my bird and two guys had vex's and one had a bird. No problem for me. I've also been in my portable with a bird right next to me and other times with a vex right next to me and haven't had a problem. I did notice a random mark circling the graph every few minutes when I was next to a bird. Funny think was the other bird had the mark circling in the opposite direction. Still able to mark both lures and fish without a problem.

[Brad B]

Birds run on 455Khz

Marcum and Vex run on 200Khz.

there won't be interference if you run a bird and Marcum or a Bird and Vex.

[Eric_Kruger]

just to reassure what every one else is saying, I fish next to a bird quite a bit and have never had an issue with my vex..

[EMAGDNIM]

I have a bird and my roommate a vex. We never get interference from each other.

[bottom-bouncer]

I have a bird and a vex use them in the shack together all the time no problems.

[JFan02]

I used my Ice 35 next to two Vexilars all weekend last weekend with no issues. The guys with the two Vexilars were interfering with each other though.

[Sherpa]

I fish my Ice-35 next to vexilars pretty often. I do get a little interference once in a while. It is very uncommon and not that extreme at all when it does happen. But yes it does happen.