2. FINE TUNING THE SONAR PICTURE

2.4Suppressing Bottom and Sea Surface Reflections in Shallow Fishing Grounds

In shallow fishing grounds with hard or rocky bottom, bottom reflections often interfere with wanted fish echoes and they can not be eliminated sufficiently with the aforementioned TVG and AGC, especially when the tilt angle is large in order to track fish schools approaching within 400 m. In such cases try to reduce the output power without turning down the gain. The picture becomes clearer when the output power is reduced rather than when the gain is decreased as illustrated below.

1.Press the MENU key. The last-used menu appears.

2.Use the [RANGE] control to choose [MENU MODE] at the top of the screen.

3.Use the [GAIN] control to choose SONAR to display the SONAR menu.

4.Use the [RANGE] control to choose TX OUTPUT.

5.Use the [GAIN] control to set TX output. The higher the setting (setting range: 0-10) the greater the TX power.

6.Press the [MENU] key to close the menu.

For long-range detection, set TX OUTPUT to 10.

 

 

Bottom echo masks

 

 

fish echo.

Improper

 

TVG and AGC

 

 

 

adjusted, OUTPUT

 

 

high.

Proper

 

OUTPUT decreased,

 

gain maintainted

 

 

 

 

Fish echo weakened

Fish echo

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