Humminbird QuadraBeam - "Poorman's Side Imaging"

[DougV]

We talk alot about Humminbird and the revolutionary Side Imaging Sonar but not everyone can afford or wants to spend that amount of money on their fishing electronics. For many years Humminbird has offered a 2D Sonar product that allows you to increase your coverage area to 2X the depth and get the benefit of knowing which side the Sonar Data is from...It the QuadraBeam Transducer Optional for many of Humminbird's Models.



Check out this image below and you can see the huge benefits of looking to the sides versus looking down. You can see the tree in both images but with QuadraBeam you can tell which side of the transducer the tree was on. A great feature for Humminbird Owners that gets you additional coverage but with reduced costs of High Frequency Side Imaging Units:

[Creel Limit Zero]

That's pretty slick.   

[lgetc]

I just ordered a humminbird 778c I understand all the 700 series are side imaging, I hope not just the poor mans QuadraBeam, I've got a 565 and it works great but I wanted side imaging did Iorder the wrong unit??

[-Joe-]

Sorry to tell you lgetc, but you didn't even get the quadrobeam. If it doesn't have "SI" in the model number, its not a side imaging unit. I think the 798 SI is the least expensive SI they make, it starts at about a grand.

Joe