Product Description
Garmin GPSMap 178C Color Sounder is a new-generation fully integrated chartplotter and powerful sonar, offering the same brilliant sunlight-readable color LCD, powerful features, and simple interface as sister model Garmin GPSMAP 172C, in a compact, value-priced console that leaves fish nowhere to hide.
FEATURES:
- Comes standard with a built-in worldwide marine basemap accepts MapSource® BlueChart®
- Offshore marine cartography—featuring detailed depth contours, inter-tidal zones, wrecks, navaids, and many other points of interest
- For small-water anglers, this Garmin Sounder is compatible with MapSource Recreational Lakes with Fishing Hot Spots—featuring fishing areas, boat ramps, marinas, and hazards for hundreds of popular U.S. and Canadian lakes.
- GPSMap 178C accepts separately purchased pre-programmed data cards that easily insert into the slot on the front of the unit
- WAAS enabled, 12 parallel channel GPS receiver continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites to compute and update your position
- State-of-the-art 200 KHz processor ideal for inland lakes and bays, makes data acquisition, panning, and zooming virtually instantaneous
- See-Thru® technology (which separates fish from thermoclines and structure) and Depth Control Gain (DCG®) for detailed images of structure and bottom densities
- New digital display technology offers an easy-to-read, semi-transparent digital readout that allows users to see sonar images behind the data
- User waypoints are automatically tagged with the date and time of creation, as well as water temperature and depth—vital information for serious anglers
- 10,000 active track points and 700 saved track points; database information can be stored on removable data cards and transferred to a PC or another unit
- Sends, receives, and displays positioning data with DSC equipped VHF radios
- TracBack™ mode helps guide you back to points along a route
- Tracklines can be color-coded for trolling or cruising applications
- Adjustable range, gain, zoom, and bottom lock
- Temperature log maintains a graphical record of temperature data
- Shallow-water, deep-water, fish-by-size, timer, low-battery-voltage, anchor-drag, arrival, off-course, proximity-waypoint, and clock alarms
- Water temperature and fish ID with depth alarms
SPECIFICATIONS:
- 320 x 320-pixel
- 256-color CSTN screen with adjustable CCFL backlight
- 3.2" W x 3.2" H (4.5" diagonal) viewing area
- 6.3" x 4.9" x 3.7" (W x H x D) unit dimensions
- Case is fully gasketed, high-impact plastic alloy, waterproof to IEC 529 IPX7 standards
- Temperature range: 5º F to 158º F (-15º C to 70º C)
INCLUDES:
- Garmin GA29 remote antenna.