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lx67 ice machine ready to pull my hair out horrible interference


robert1965

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What version of the machine do you have. The newer version has helped a little with interference.

Here is a post, courtesies of Federline, that I hope will help you out.

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How about some x67c straight talk?

A) The upgrade to version 1.6.0 from the 1.4.0 I had before seems to have made my x67c more interference resistant. I fished in the crowd on Buffalo Lake without a single x67c interference problem. Not the case last year. I'd have to believe that almost every flasher is represented in a crowd of 50+ people on a Metro Lake in a space of less than a football field, spaced 20 feet apart. But since I do not have access to Lowrance Proprietary information on what they changed, I can't prove this - there is no listing of x67c software fixes in 1.6.0 on their HSOforum. Take it for what it is worth.

B) I have a working template for a procedure of adjusting an x67c for interference. I'm not going to bother posting it here, because I don't have near enough information to be sure. It involves all of these settings: Ping Speed; Chart Speed; Noise Rejection; Surface Clarity; Sensitivity. Ping Speed above 50% activates Hyperscroll, an accelerated sounding speed. Surface Clarity and Noise Rejection are digital signal processing algorithms that can be individually enabled at Low, Med, High or Off, making 16 possible combinations between the two.

The only thing I will say at this point is that I have avoided interference in the Buffalo Lake crowd twice now with version 1.6.0 and these settings: Ping Speed on high & Scroll Speed on High, Noise Rejection on high, Surface Clarity on High, Auto-sensitivity off, auto-depth off, Sensitivity about 90%. There may be other settings I am forgetting. I've had a clean screen each time with no degradation in performance with all this enabled. BTW, I run in Graph Mode not flasher emulation mode - but you can use the Sonar Options menu in graph mode and return to flasher mode, since the Sonar Options menu is not available in Flasher Mode. Honestly, I have no desire to read a flasher display again after using graph mode on ice.

C) The newer x67c hardware in stores now seems to run the program even faster then the first units - I dunno if it is the screen that is faster, or the processor. I think there is definitely something to there being a new hardware revision.

D) These units DO NOT take a chip. You have to send them to Tulsa to be upgraded, it's about a 2 week turnaround typically.

E) There is not an upgrade to the m68c GPS that allows lake contours.

F) "[The LX5 is] the best flasher that I have seen." - Bob Horn. I agree with this statement. The x67c is not a flasher. A flasher is to a graph, what a physical cockpit linkage is to fly-by-wire.

It appears that Lowrance's style of technical improvement is subtle and quiet. This is the second year I've used this unit, I am still learning about it, and they are still improving it.

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