Navionics Map Cards

[lawman]

I am new to this equipment forum but have to get something off my chest. This spring I bought a Lowrance 3300c mapper. I added a Navionics chip to the setup which includes Lake Vermilion and my home waters Mississippi Pool 4. I know you should never use these gadgets for precise navigation and even with its weaknesses the system will get you home and keep you from getting lost but............for the money I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the Navionics charts. These maps are very incomplete. The Lake Vermilion map is missing many islands and as I motored thru a channel over a quarter mile wide the system was telling me I was on dry land. This channel runs along an island that is at least a mile square. The same is true for Pool 4. Many times I find myself looking at the screen shaking my head as it shows me on dry land because so much detail is missing from this chip.

I emailed this info to Navionics and got no response.

Are there better chips out there?

Thanks

Brian

[lawman]

Navionics, region 10 gold version. This chip will get you home if you follow your trail but there definitely is some missing stuff on it.

[hitthebricks]

I have the navionics Premiun for region 10, and the Low. 4800, which is just better seperation than the 3300. I'm very impressed with the whole package so far. I havn't use it in any of the lakes maped in 3ft. incs. but Pelican and the St. Croix it worked great, it showed the boat coming up to the structure, Points, Flats, and the direction to get back on the same drift. I also did get a software upgrade from lowrance that helped with a few other problems. Havn't been to pool 4 yet with this but hope it works as good as Ive seen so far. Good Lucl. HTB

[lawman]

I am new to this equipment forum but have to get something off my chest. This spring I bought a Lowrance 3300c mapper. I added a Navionics chip to the setup which includes Lake Vermilion and my home waters Mississippi Pool 4. I know you should never use these gadgets for precise navigation and even with its weaknesses the system will get you home and keep you from getting lost but............for the money I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the Navionics charts. These maps are very incomplete. The Lake Vermilion map is missing many islands and as I motored thru a channel over a quarter mile wide the system was telling me I was on dry land. This channel runs along an island that is at least a mile square. The same is true for Pool 4. Many times I find myself looking at the screen shaking my head as it shows me on dry land because so much detail is missing from this chip.

I emailed this info to Navionics and got no response.

Are there better chips out there?

Thanks

Brian

[Deitz Dittrich]

wow...

I also have the premium navionics card in my LMS 480...I have been on a few of the 1 foot contour lakes and a few of the 3 foot contour lakes... I tell you what... best $200 I have ever spent! Mille Lacs, Big Marine are flawless...

Stupid question.. are you sure you have the chip turned on? Once you put the chip in you have to go to the main menu on your unit and sellec the chip to read.. you may still have the normal Lowrance map on.... just a question?!

[mwal]

I have an Intelli map 480 and the WI and #10 regional premium chip. The WI chip was a big disapointment most of the maps in northern WI are off a minimum of 300 yards. So your are trolling on dry land and I cannot see any of the hotspots info. The region 10 premium seems to be right on on the lakes I have used it on like Clearwater you could almost use it like a depthsounder very nice. Does anyone know the setting to see the hotspots info? MY friend Garmin displays the info.

Mwal

[lawman]

Here's an update on my earlier post about my Navionics Gold 2004 chip. Found out by calling the Co. this was operator error. Once they told me how to enable the chip by adjusting my Lowrance 3000c things looked great. They did tell me there were supposed to be some instructions in the box which were missing. I had been running on the Lowrance software, which is primitive and didn't know it.
Sorry!

[Deitz Dittrich]

Thats what I was saying when I asked if you had it turned on...

Glad you got it all worked out now...