Campground, not campsite. Thanks Jerr, I’ll check that one out.

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I think BrianK is more the Joe BTFSPLK type. I preferred it when it was more ham radio, we had tight group down at Winona and when I was helping out at UND’s Severe Weather Analysis Center. Some time I’d dispatch and some time spot, which was more exciting, but I should have never let them talk me into taking meteorology classess on top my other two majors. Ended up never finishing any of them. But I did learn a lot. Great place to send your kids to school.

http://www.und.edu/spotlights/leonosborne.html

Leon’s a great teacher. I was about 30 when I went back to school and got more out of it than the kids I think being the same age as Leon and some of the other professors.
One time when I was when spotting after dark, which we didn’t suggest for most, looking north towards town while parked up at Wilson by I90 above Winona, I watched this big black “utter” pass in front of me with ever lightning flash.
I quit when I moved back up here and started watching out for the parents. Never know, maybe I’ll get back into it now.

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You forgot scud, mammatus and roll clouds. It was always fun to see the panic those caused.
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I do a lot of Bruce Samson’s tech support so I help people who bought DrDepth and Fugawi from him with setting up the programs. But most of this is over the phone. I’ve also been answering what I can on post on varying sites about setting up and using the Humminbird 997s.

With tournament season coming up Bruce asked me to handle his internet sales shipping too, and with things around here dictating I need to stick close to home I figured I might as well. And if I’m going to be here I might as well offer my help to people thinking about getting into mapping for themselves or Fugawi or people interested in what the new side scan systems have to offer and thoughts on how to set them up best.

Maybe I’m wrong and no one will be interested, but what the heck, I offered.

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But boy if we got some warm weather after all this rain. yeow, I’d love a batch of them all fried up.

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I agree with you 100% Jeremy. Its interesting how Humminbird isn’t afraid to have their people get involved on the internet, even at the risk of not being able to make every one happy, which most times seems like people who, for their own cause, are trying to stir up trouble. The Yahoo users side scan group is a great place for help.

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Comparing day to day use of the side scan to non side scan is like saying you turn off your sonar unless you want to look for some thing. There is always some thing to see.

The friend that just bought a 997 from Wade is finding it the cats meow. He’s been using an X-15 for years. Using it as he’s fishing he’s finding stuff like this. The bridge peir might not have been fish but I thought the detail on it was some thing else.

You can check out some of the other stuff on his site.

http://imageevent.com/okoboji_images/hummingbirdsideimaging

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I get a kick out of when low tech guys I know get one. They might not know what ever last thing down there is, the one thing they complain about is they’re having to much fun driving around watching the screen and not fishing. That has to mean they’re worth it.
I used the 997 last summer. If I couldn’t recognize what it was down there I put down the camera, or if I was in a hurry I’d put a way point on it and fish it. Side scan is the ultimate way of finding structure. I think people who have trouble with the idea of side scan just aren’t use to being able to pick out structure down to that small a scale. With it you don’t have to do the hit and miss of driving dead smack over the top of it.
Most of what you see isn’t that hard to interpret, brighter areas are still harder material, darker softer. Its just the idea of going from a one dimensional depth below the boat to a more or less three dimensional presentation.
I’m betting in the future these are going to influence the out come of tournaments.
My suggestions to the guys is, see it… fish it, and hands down your going to see a lot more. Simple as that.
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Tom Vickers from Humminbird just posted on the users group. They aren’t.

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If you go to use it in the house, those little Humminbird power supplies they sell on Ebay aren’t big enough to run the 1197. If you buy the Humminbird PC kit, don’t, repeat don’t, use the power cord with the two 9vlt battery connectors. It won’t run it long enough to do squat. Always up date the software by putting it on an SD card and turning the unit on after you insert it. Wham Bam its done. If you do get the PC kit, cut those connectors off the first thing and put a 3 amp fuse on the plus lead and two female spade connectors. Fits on those 7.5 AH batteries you use ice fishing perfectly. Then you can take it any where your heart desires to play with, the batteries are sealed so you don’t have to worry about them leaking.

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Side note. I found out where all those Humminbird power supplies came from. They aren’t meant for personal use. They were to be used with the displays at retailers, different FCC rules apply about radio emissions.

March 2003

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Now thats funny. I take it your trying to slam Stephen Hawking.

Stephen Hawkins

As for myself, I don’t blindly accept corporate or Air America telecasting to try and make my self feel better by saying mankind doesn’t have this kind of power. There already are places on this planet that have suffered significant man made climate modifications long before today.

And if that was food for thought, the funnies must be the great papers.

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Sorry to doubt such a prestigious scientific journal as the Investors Business Daily. I prefer reading lowly things like NOAA’s web page

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fsd/astro/sunspots.php

and

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

Seems to me too that it was reported the magnetic flip already occurred. Seeing as they predicted it for March that article seems to stretch some things.

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/05/new-solar-cycle-begins-with-new-year/

Then again, maybe the earth is flat too. I’m surprised no one’s brought up solar dimming thats being studied.

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PS If you’d like some good reading Google volcanoe krakatau 535

Didn’t realize how fast this month is going by or I’d have mentioned Bruce is having a seminar on subjects like this at his Lowrance Class Feb 2 at Crystal-Pierz Marine in Rogers. There are sign up sheets with info on the class on both our sites.
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Just talked to Bruce and he says he pauses the chart and that stops the pings till he’s ready ready to go again.

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Fishing with Bruce Samson, he just puts the back unit on hold, doesn’t have to shut it off. Like Wade, in his classes he suggests the ping rate. One other idea, can you tilt the front transducer just a bit forward and make sure you transom transducer isn’t tilted any further forward than it has to be to run right.

Just a note, Bruce and I met up to fish this fall with each of us using our own boat, our sonars tore each other apart. We had to stay away from each other. No fun when you can’t snipe at each other.

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He’s at Chamberlain giving a talk right now if you don’t get an answer right away.
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And here I’m fussing around trying to set up some thing for myself that could be pulled out by hand. Totally different worlds. I’m only looking towards WMF web streaming.

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Your going to have to have a warm inside place then. Hard drives don’t like it cold. Thats why I had thought about contact Frabil on their R2-Tec for doing working out of. You can really turn up the heaters but I think that invites accidents with wiring.

The video input cards can run higher rates too, like AVI or MPG4. You might want to consider a laptop and then save to an external very large hard drive or drives. I like my Panasonic Tough Book cause it has a heater built in under the hard drive but thats battery time if your traveling light like I do.

Some thing else to remember is these cameras aren’t going to give you the same quality video to start with as a big shoulder unit.

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The AquaVu DVR uses SD cards. There I’m suggesting the Sandisk Extreme III. You can get it up to 4gb right now. The reason on the Extreme III is I undertand they’re mademore rugged for bad weather conditions and its temp operating range is -13F to 185F. Toss in its 133 times faster than a standard SD card. Sale might be over but Circuit City was having a sale on the 2gb ones for $35 and one of the other guys on the side scan group found a price of $50 for 4gb on another site.

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651-982-1401 if you want to call

If your talking capturing with a laptop, I bought video capture/TV cards for Doc and I on Ebay to do the video of the submerged boat I put on my web site. Plugs right in the PCMCIA card slot. Think I paid like $15 each.

Also, I think the guys from the Yahoo users group for side scan have been looking for a way to use the AquaVu DVR unit, like I use with the MAV unit, to record from the RCA port the Humminbird 1197 when its released.

A very recent post on BassHoles.com, the guy just got a responce by NatureVisons customer service they don’t have an adapter cord for the DVR yet but because of interest of recording from that new Fish TV, they’re working on it. Call back in 60 to 90 days.

I think the video card did the best quality but if you want to compare the two go to my site and check the Video page. The boat on bottom is with the laptop, the others are with a DVR unit. http://www.accuemap.com/ Right now I’m trying to find a suitable shelter that’d be warm enough to run the computer and gear in to do videos under the ice of “Fish Gone Bad”. Hopefully the only thing will stink might be my work.

There are bunchs of companies too, if you google, that make RCA/USB converters you can use with a laptop.

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Hope this isn’t too late. I have imagery of Brushy Creek “IA” up on the main page of my web site. Click on it and it should down load. If it all fits on the screen then it isn’t full resolution. I think all you have to do is click on the image then and it should expand.
I put the out line of the current shore in a red line. Hope this helps for dead reckoning.

http://www.accuemap.com

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Could you have gotten some condensation in the tank and lines. I’m wondering water in the lines.
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Peterson’s mill in North Branch carries Carhartt. Can’t say if they have womens but if you north of the cities a place to check.
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been playing with DrDepth and the data I collected the other day. Here’s a 3D image I saved some of you might like. If it isn’t full size, clicking on it will bring it up.
The program would let me rotate it to any angle I want and on a faster machine it’d make the 3D as I went along collecting data.

http://www.accuemap.com/files/3d.gif

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Thanks Nick. I posted some side scan oddities from Clearwater Lake on the site this evening you might find interesting. Not sure what some of them are yet. Maybe camera time again.

Clearwater Lake

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Think I’m just going to slip the boat off the trailer at the landing on Clear Lake here near Forest Lake and drift a ways out and cast for a while this afternoon.
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Put up the contours over the image.

Laptop, DrDepth and Humminbird map

Click on the image down on that page to see how well it worked.

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It’s not local but I put map imagery up of Sakakawea as a test. If your using dail up, don’t go there.

Clearwater, Pelican and 1938 Chisago are up.

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great pix as always. Bring them on. Which desert, Painted?
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