GPS Recommendations?

[cajun bill]

Originally Posted by Fishaholic247

I have the new Lowrance Elite 7 HDI unit with GPS, Downscan imaging and traditional 2D sonar. Very happy with it and the menu is easy to navigate on the water. $699

I bought the same unit and I agree with the comment about the menu. Seems to be easy to scroll, etc., and load info, but not sure about the gold card feature yet. I was loading my old waypoints yesterday, (that went very well and it was easy to do), but when I tried to zoom in on some of them on the map, it seemed to take an excessive amount of time to get the info from the card to zoom in. I noticed that the SD card icon would flash at the bottom until the map finished the zoom. Haven't put it in the water yet, so I'm hoping that the delay was caused by the fact that the unit couldn't see the sky cuz I was under my shed. Also don't know if my choice of where I mounted the transducer (on the trim tab) is going to work out.