01-12-2015, 01:17 PM
[quote fishrdan]One other small issue, when fishing in the tight canyons around Willow Beach, the Humminbird will loose GPS fix since the canyons obscure the GPS satellites. It doesn't bother me as I know the area, just thought I'd mention it since you said "Mohave".[/quote]
I have only done the whole river once. From Willow all the way down into the mid Mohave area. Never lost my fix. The external GPS antenna works a whole bunch better than a unit with a internal. I wasn't watching/paying attention to what the front unit did with internal GPS though. That was several years ago. I can get a perfect fix with the boat sitting inside the garage with the door open. That puts the puck +/- 20 feet inside the garage. The front unit that would be only a few feet inside the garage takes upwards of 20 minutes to finally get something if anything at all. Also since both of my units are connected together via a Ethernet cable if the front lost a signal for whatever reason I can just switch it to the rear GPS puck.
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I have only done the whole river once. From Willow all the way down into the mid Mohave area. Never lost my fix. The external GPS antenna works a whole bunch better than a unit with a internal. I wasn't watching/paying attention to what the front unit did with internal GPS though. That was several years ago. I can get a perfect fix with the boat sitting inside the garage with the door open. That puts the puck +/- 20 feet inside the garage. The front unit that would be only a few feet inside the garage takes upwards of 20 minutes to finally get something if anything at all. Also since both of my units are connected together via a Ethernet cable if the front lost a signal for whatever reason I can just switch it to the rear GPS puck.
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