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The Lowrance LCX-15MT Sounder If you've been boating for more than fifteen years, you'll remember the first echo sounders - machines which used reams of paper. It's hard to imagine those clunky old sounders in a little boat like this. Since the digital revolution, this is what we've been using. Compact sounders with LCD screens, much smaller, easier to use and waterproof. But they could never give as much detail as the old paper charts. Until now… because Lowrance has gone back to the future. This is the new LCX-15MT. Its high definition screen shows as much detail as the good old paper graphs.That's because it uses double the amount of pixels, or dots on the screen, as current sounders. From 240 on your average LCD display … to 480 on the new screen… so you can see the fish or the bottom structures much more clearly. This better resolution also makes the zoom feature sharper. That allows you to zoom in on the bottom, magnify 2 or 4 times to see if it's whiting or flathead you're chasing. Many boat owners have their sounders switched permanently on automatic - afraid that the manual features are just too tricky to handle. But if you learn how to use them properly, you'll discover there's a whole new world down there. For example, you can split the screen to look at something in more detail, and still keep an eye on the big picture. There are some simple tips to recognising the different shapes on your sounder - this arching means those are fish moving about. And a school of small bait fish will show up as a cluster of dots like this. This latest model also has a few great tools, like a depth cursor so you can mark the depth of a particular fish. The LCX-15MT has 480 vertical pixels and a dual frequency transducer of 50 kiloherz and 200 kiloherz. It comes with a transom-mount
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Lowrance LCX-15MT 480 Vertical pixels Dual-frequency Fully waterproof Transom-mount or through hull transducers Cost: |
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