Found my original post, but decided on a 958 instead of a 858, really glad I did, just love the way both units work, but still got a lowrance to fit the dash
as a dedicated GPS....I know old habits are hard to break, but I had an LMS 480 there and had to have something to fill the hole with.
Anyway the Elite-5M Gold is GPS only it has a Navionics chip and will have Boatlanes software on it soon
998 is on the dash,958 on TM connected by ethernet, both units are hooked up to their own GPS pucks, I understand from my previous post that I need a mapping
card in each machine, thus when I create a GPS point it will show up on both units, in your opinion, should I get 2 Navionics to match whats in the Elite, or go with
2 Lakemasters so I can get the best of both chips, or better yet have 1 navionics chip in the 998 and a lakemaster in the 958.
I know if I mark/save something on the 998 it will show up on the 958, but will it work vise/versa...mark something on the 958 will it show on the 998
Secondly I read somewhere to register with Humminbird PC which I will do, but do they make a cable to go from the 998/958 to the computer, maybe like a usb cable or something
I have spent the last week finding the settings for SI and DI, will try them this weekend
Thanks for the help