FCV800 and TM185HW Marlin/Tuna settings

[Natebrej]

Has anyone any experience sounding the water column for bait/marlin/tuna etc with these units? I’ve got a tm260 plugged in as well and get perfect bottom images fishing with it but am yet to trial the HW for our upcoming Blue Marlin season.
I usually fish between 500-1000m of water so what would be the ideal settings to sound the top 80m of water as that is all im interested in, Scroll speed, TX power/rate, tvg depth and power, CHIRP frequencies etc

Cheers

 

[Johnny Electron]

@Deep Blue ?

 

[Deep Blue]

Natebrej,

Here are some basic FCV800 settings that will get you started. But you will need to adjust accordingly to the sea conditions:

FCV800
Pic Advance: ......1/1
Range: .......Manual
Interference: ......OFF
Color Erase: .......20%
Clutter: ..............10%
White Line: ..........OFF
Smoothing: .........OFF
TVG: ...................300 ft
TX Power: ...........10
TX Rate: …………. 10

- Deep Blue