Panhandler80
New member
Good morning,
Boat I bought has a pair of Garmin 7912XSV units with a B275LHW. I think that set up would be fine for looking for bait in moderate depths and picking apart schools for fish with the frequency sweep feature. I'm going to leave that system in place for THAT purpose.
I also need a system to more accurately discriminate bottom in average depths (say 100-300) with a narrow H beam. In addition to this, I want to accurately read bottom out to 1,500 or so for deep dropping (could still use H on R109 for a lot of this... especially if I dial fixed frequency back a little)... AND I'd like to try and mark deep scatter layer and / or swords out to say 2,500-3,000 feet... which would be my R109 in L. I figure for this second system my TZT14 (already own), and R109 and a DFF3 would work well. I realize that the TZT will not process 2kw CHRIP from any sounder, so... my questions are this:
1. Does anybody know what the sweet spot frequency wise for the R109 might be? Ideally I'd like to set the frequency (again... SET as in fixed since the TZT won't recognize 2kw sweep) to something outside the frequency range of the B275LHW that's on the Garmin.
2. Should I even worry about setting the fixed frequency on Furuno outside the sweep range of the Garmin?
3. For the intended purpose of my Furuno unit, wouldn't the R109 be my best bet? Is there a transducer that I'm over looking?
Boat I bought has a pair of Garmin 7912XSV units with a B275LHW. I think that set up would be fine for looking for bait in moderate depths and picking apart schools for fish with the frequency sweep feature. I'm going to leave that system in place for THAT purpose.
I also need a system to more accurately discriminate bottom in average depths (say 100-300) with a narrow H beam. In addition to this, I want to accurately read bottom out to 1,500 or so for deep dropping (could still use H on R109 for a lot of this... especially if I dial fixed frequency back a little)... AND I'd like to try and mark deep scatter layer and / or swords out to say 2,500-3,000 feet... which would be my R109 in L. I figure for this second system my TZT14 (already own), and R109 and a DFF3 would work well. I realize that the TZT will not process 2kw CHRIP from any sounder, so... my questions are this:
1. Does anybody know what the sweet spot frequency wise for the R109 might be? Ideally I'd like to set the frequency (again... SET as in fixed since the TZT won't recognize 2kw sweep) to something outside the frequency range of the B275LHW that's on the Garmin.
2. Should I even worry about setting the fixed frequency on Furuno outside the sweep range of the Garmin?
3. For the intended purpose of my Furuno unit, wouldn't the R109 be my best bet? Is there a transducer that I'm over looking?