Ice fishing settings for a Garmin Echomap UHD 73cv

I just bought a new Garmin 73cv ice bundle without Panoptics. The manual from Garmin is worthless. All Youtube videos seem to be for Panoptics or Livescope. Does anyone know of a good site or video that has tips on how to set this up for ice fishing?

John Monson wrote:

I just bought a new Garmin 73cv ice bundle without Panoptics. The manual from Garmin is worthless. All Youtube videos seem to be for Panoptics or Livescope. Does anyone know of a good site or video that has tips on how to set this up for ice fishing?

They’re a breeze to use.

Pick a favorite page (and save it to a favorite button like a radio station) and adjust your gain. That’s about it.

Here’s a quick tutorial I did showing my favorite view of 2D. You have to dig a little into the settings to get this specific view, but it’s worth the 5 seconds it takes.

It’s been posted here a few times, but always worth sharing for using 2D sonar.

I like to slow the scroll speed down too (like in the video), it’s easy to find in the menu/settings as well

B-man wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>John Monson wrote:</div>
I just bought a new Garmin 73cv ice bundle without Panoptics. The manual from Garmin is worthless. All Youtube videos seem to be for Panoptics or Livescope. Does anyone know of a good site or video that has tips on how to set this up for ice fishing?

They’re a breeze to use.

Pick a favorite page (and save it to a favorite button like a radio station) and adjust your gain. That’s about it.

Here’s a quick tutorial I did showing my favorite view of 2D. You have to dig a little into the settings to get this specific view, but it’s worth the 5 seconds it takes.

It’s been posted here a few times, but always worth sharing for using 2D sonar.

I like to slow the scroll speed down too (like in the video), it’s easy to find in the menu/settings as well

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Thanks for the video again I was looking for it as well.
Hope to see you on red tommorrow

B-man-
Thanks for the video. I’m trying to get mine set up just as you have it in the video. I think I’m close now. Trouble is I’m having to do this while sitting in my shop (no good ice out here yet). Without having the transducer in the water it’s hard to visualize how it’s going to look. Again, thanks for your help.

I used one last year, and asked the same question on another forum. This is the reply I got, and have been using these settings:

Garmin sonar settings

I have two different Garmin sonars … EchoMAP CHIRP 53dv and EchoMAP Plus 95sv … and also both ice transducers above. Targeting perch and walleye typically in 20-30 FOW always using ‘Traditional Sonar’ with ‘Split Zoom’; zoom window on the left and full water column on the right. Following are some of my preferred sonar settings for the 95sv; almost all settings stay the same between uses (i.e. cycling the power) until you change them again.

‘Menu – Zoom – Split Zoom – [On].

‘Menu – Range’ set to [Auto] and ‘Zoom’ set to [Manual] with a 5ft zoom window.

‘Menu – Sonar Setup – Scroll Speed’ set to [Ultra].

‘Menu – Sonar Setup – Advanced – Interference’ set to [Off] and ‘Surface Noise’ set to [Hide].

‘Menu – Sonar Setup – On-screen Control’ set to [Gain].

‘Menu – Sonar Setup – Appearance – Color Scheme’ set to [Classic Blue].

‘Menu – Frequency’ usually set to [CHIRP] but I sometimes check out different ‘Beam Width’ settings … interesting to see the return signal change while cycling through the different settings. The GT10HN-IF ice ‘ducer provides 7-16 degree beam width and the 8HW-IF 16-24 degrees.

I want the lure return signal to always be visible but as fine as possible so, depending on depth etc, will usually have the ‘Gain’ somewhere between 40% – 60% accordingly.

I typically have the Backlight set at 30-50% evenings or inside a shanty, and 50-70% outdoors in daylight.

By the way, the EchoMAP Plus 95sv touch screen with keyed-assist features are absolutely AWESOME! (Also applies to EchoMAP Plus 7x models.) Simple two-finger motion to resize the zoom window or single finger swipe to move the zoom window anywhere within the water column. Four ‘memory’ keys to instantly jump to your most frequently used screens in any combination of sonar and/or navigation. Choice of On-screen Control … Off, Gain or Range.

Thanks Steve! I’ll give that a try, too.

Is there a setting to cut power to the gls10 box while maintaining power to the head unit only? This is to conserve battery and use traditional sonar and not livescope.

Just got a new Garmin 73cv UHD yesterday – WIll be using it for the 1st time on Saturday.

1st off this discussion has been helpful- thanks to all that have contributed

Couple questions

Is there anywhere on the unit that displays the battery life or setting to add that somewhere. Percentage would be great

I noticed there is not a panoptics or livescope app on the home screen. IF I choose to add panoptics later will that app automatically just show up or is that something that has to be downloaded.

The Panoptix tile will show up when the unit detects the Panoptix transducer or for the LiveScope, the LiveScope box/module.

Dash Adams wrote:

Just got a new Garmin 73cv UHD yesterday – WIll be using it for the 1st time on Saturday.

1st off this discussion has been helpful- thanks to all that have contributed

Couple questions

Is there anywhere on the unit that displays the battery life or setting to add that somewhere. Percentage would be great

I noticed there is not a panoptics or livescope app on the home screen. IF I choose to add panoptics later will that app automatically just show up or is that something that has to be downloaded.

The unit does not display battery percent- that would require knowing what type of battery you are running. I am powering mine with a 20V lithium tool battery. There is by default a battery voltage displayed in all but the map screen. There is also a voltage alarm you can set in system alarms. I set mine to 16V, but you can find out what voltage you want to change the battery you are using and set that value.