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Originally Posted by cnc33voodoo
i actually was leaning towards the garmin unit due to the fact that i know from experience they last a long time however when i turned it on i noticed poor colouring on the screen.then i checked online reviews and found that was a common complaint, |
We haven't had that problem with our
Garmin 498C. In fact I was quite pleased to find it easily readable regardless of
lighting. Yeah, it's a bit more difficult when the sun is low over the stern, but not too bad.
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Originally Posted by cnc33voodoo
and that it was hard to determine land from shallow waters.
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Haven't had that problem at all. (Damn good thing, too, because the lake we sail (so far) is a shallow one.)
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Originally Posted by cnc33voodoo
also a few reviews mentioned the sreen is constantly pausing to load the next information.my old garmin unit does that and its pretty anoying. |
Haven't had that problem, either. Have noticed that occasionally when "scrolling" quickly to a location other than our current location, but nothing particularly annoying, even then.
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Originally Posted by cnc33voodoo
the only standard horizon item ive ever used was a marine radio that came on a 27 footer my freind has and it took a crap in the bed. |
Odd thing for a
radio to do. Did you swat it with a rolled-up newspaper and show it where it's supposed to go?
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Originally Posted by cnc33voodoo
kind of makes me question their quality.
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Don't really know anything about Standard Horizon's quality. Saw some of their current
radios recommended in a recent thread. Kind of considering a Standard Horizon Quest-X GX1500S from that.
The
Garmin 498C is from something like season-before-last's product
line. If you can find one somewhere you ought to be able to get it for a song. We're quite pleased with ours. We paid $626 for ours, from Hodge's Marine, shipping and all, but that was nearly a year ago and included the through-hull sonar transducer.
Jim