ilucas,

These cards hold the same information; they are just in different formats. You have a CF (CompactFlash) card like the one shown on the left below and the one for sale at Cabela's is an SD (SecureDigital) card as shown on the right below. The SD card is physically smaller than the CF card but holds the same info. I believe the CF format is used in Northstar units while the SD format is used in most other units (including Raymarine, Lowrance, Eagle, Hummingbird and Furuno).

A correction to my post above. Raymarine units use the CF cards NOT the SD cards. Sorry for any confusion.

thank you Lucky Devil,

the raymarine c series uses the cf card you have pictured on the left. do you know if they have added any NH lakes w/contours to the 06 card ?

ilucas

I saw them in Cabelas new Spring catalog today, both the 2006 (cheaper) and 2007. The 2007 hot maps has 2000 lakes added, uhm, I wonder if Squam is one of them. I kind of doubt it, I've been trying top contact them all week, nadda, e mail, left phone messages, etc. Good thing for them they are the only store in town.

John S.

John,
i called navionics today. they are on vacation until the 2nd. i was going to try to find out about any additional contoured maps added to nh lakes

ilucas

This might sound kind of foolish, but here it goes If these maps are on the same type of card that fits in a digital camera, whats to stop someone from copying it onto another card? i know i can take information off of a card from the camera and put it onto my flashdrive could you do the same with this map card? I ask cause only my buddies from winni etc... have the map cards me and Robert are still stuck in the stone age looking at depth maps etc... LMAO Take Care God Bless and Hurry up 4/1/07 LOL Dave From up North

LOL Dave: Navionics has a very sophisticated copyprotect code built into and encrypted in the chip...if you try to copy the data off any of their cards it will destroy the map data and render it unusable. They have a clear warning about this that comes with the chip.

Mike -- the '06 Hotmaps Premium East added a tremendous number of lakes relative to the '05. I bought the '05 version because it had the new hig-res Winni map but it had essentially no ME lakes among other gaps. In '06 they added hundreds of lakes, including 200+ for ME alone including the high res maps for Moosehead and Sebago. They also added a ton of "minor" lakes down here in NY including some of the NYC and hydroelectric reservoirs I fish. No squam in '06. Hopefully they add Squam and other NH lakes in '07 or soon.

In Cabelas ad it says 2000 more for 2007 in the NE I believe, not sure about Squam, I've done OK up to now without it, not sure what I have it's something my son gave me, has al the NE Lakes, just not the new stuff on the hot chip.

I'll call them next week, guess thay are closed this week.

John S.

I was just curious LOL not considering doing anything illegal LOL Take Care God Bless and Darn i wish 4/1/07 would hurry up and get here UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHh LOL Dave From up NOrth

No offense implied LOL Dave, I just did not want you or anyone else who laid out that kind of $$$ for the chip to fool with it and find out its useless afterwards. Some guys on a different board I go to on occasion toyed with it and found out the hard way.

-Eric