Hi,
Very inspiring and exhilarating news from HB! Too bad the Humminbird website people didn't finnish the info on the new units before this weekend. Specifications are missing on all but one units so we will probably have to handle our curiosity and frustration until next week.
In the mean time I'm digesting questions as: are also the SI channels chirped, has HB solved the recording gap issue, will the 3:rd party recording viewers work, any news on new SI transducers, what about DrDepth - is it revived and integrated/adapted in some way, etc.?
Chirp is not so critical for sideimaging because horizontal resolution is always much worse than range resolution (which is improved with chirp). Chirp will have some effect on depth resolution in the downward channels. Sideimaging can (almost) only be enhanced in a meaningful way with longer transducers. If there is no new SI transducer coming I don't think HB has done anything to the SI capacity since that wouldn't have any practical effect.
Speculations with regards,
Rickard