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portageman

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I got one last year and it worked really well. They changed it some this year and now call it the Showdown. My wife really liked it, she thought it was just plain simple ot use. I myself really like the depth readout display. Was great for hopping holes. If you got one of the old VPG units from last year... Aqua-Vu is updating them for free, you just have to pay shipping!

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I sent my VPG in for the software upgrade this summer. I can't wait to try it out on the hardwater. I like my VPG alot last winter. I thought it worked great. Only had one issue with interference from a vex. But the software upgrade is supposed to fix that. They added some automatic modes in the upgrade. Auto depth range, Auto sensitivity, and remembers last settings after powering off. Plus it's quiet and has a small footprint. I am glad I bought mine. The only thing that really needs improvement is the arm to hold the transducer. Very brittle. laugh.gif

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Just bought one a week ago and played with it a bit. My big concern was that the shades of gray would be hard to tell the diffrence between. After playing with it, I can tell you that they are very distictive and easy to tell the diffrence between. I'm sending the head unit in to get the upgrades tomarrow. Can't wait to take it out on the ice, I personally don't like the round views of the vex and marcum. The vertical display will be nice.

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The only feature that I think is lacking on the VPG compared to the marcum and vexlar units is the dual view you get with the zoom. The VPG can zoom, but it only shows the partial column, the others units show a zoom and a reduced full column. The dual view is only useful in certain situations, however I would hate to miss those opportunities. Fish that come way up off the bottom and wack the bait high in the column are the most fun to catch IMO.

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how hard was it to tell bottom content with the graph? that is one thing i have always had trouble with on lcds. i set my boat depth finders to manual all the time to see the second echo. it didn't look like in the manual that you could do that.

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Does anyone have any info about the software update? I can't seem to find any information about it on their
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Give them a call and they will give you a return authorization number for returning it. They'll ask you to include a $10 check to cover shipping charges.

click on this link for the new software info VPG software upgrade info

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ow hard was it to tell bottom content with the graph? that is one thing i have always had trouble with on lcds. i set my boat depth finders to manual all the time to see the second echo. it didn't look like in the manual that you could do that.

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