HDS Redefines ‘Ease of Use’

Electronics viewing and control have never been easier or more user-friendly. From basic operation to advanced professional functionality, HDS is thoughtfully designed to take you to the next level.

 

Stylish and Retrofit-Ready – HDS sports a modern design to enhance any boat helm. Yet, by design, HDS makes it easy to upgrade your Lowrance electronics. HDS is compatible with late-model Lowrance transducers, plus yellow Ethernetworks and NMEA 2000® network connectors.

 

New Menu Selection - The new, more versatile HDS operating system presents a new way to view and select Lowrance features. This new menu format is both easy to grasp and thoughtfully functional, so you can fly through keypad functions control with the greatest of ease and speed.

 

A Touch Better - For even easier and quicker control, HDS-8, -8m, -10 and -10m models feature a unique new FlyWheel™ scroll dial, as well as a bank of soft command keys for the fastest access to functions. So, you spend less time operating and more time fishing

 

Screen Star - In the easy-to-view category, HDS really shines. New SolarMAX™ PLUS color displays render fantastic detail in sunlight, with the best wide-angle viewing ever achieved. In fact, most now deliver nearly twice the brilliance with significantly-reduced power draw than before! Plus, super-white LED backlighting has zero-dim for eye-soothing night vision protection.

 

New 2-year Protection -Lowrance also warrants that buying HDS will put your mind at ease. Each unit comes with a new, expanded 2-year limited warranty, protecting you from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a full 24 months after purchase. At no extra cost. Optional two-year extended warranty also available for purchase.

 

 

HDS Built-In Broadband Sonar for High Definition Fish Finding

Incredible and award-winning, exclusive Broadband Sounder digital technologies is now inside all HDS sonar models for the best Lowrance fishfinding ever! As the vital link between the transducer and your HDS display, Broadband is proven to find more fish with greater sensitivity, higher definition and more display clarity with superior target separation in all cover, in thermoclines and in all water conditions.

Less Noise, More Targets - With Lowrance Broadband digital signal processing software, noise goes way down and sensitivity goes way up. The result: Ultimate target discrimination with incredible high-definition separation of those distinctive Lowrance “fish arch” targets from structure and other fish!

Crystal-Clear Clarity - With advanced digital filtering, Broadband vastly improves at-a-glance display clarity, sharpens bottom images and paints a much cleaner picture of targets that others will miss or show poorly.

Greater Shallow-Water Coverage - To cover even more water, Broadband automatically adds 83 kHz operation to a Lowrance 200 kHz single-frequency transducer. At 83 kHz, you get full 120-degrees of wide-angle coverage with greatly enhanced definition of fish arch targets.

Incredible Deep-Water Performance - Broadband sounding is serious electronics when the hunt is on for fish in any deep water situation. Even at higher boat speeds, Broadband keeps a bottom lock at depth, with exceptional targeting of fish arches on the bottom, around wrecks and other seabed structure. And when used with a high-power transducer, strong bottom locks and water column detail reach down thousands of feet!

Expandability at No Extra Cost - For added value, HDS Broadband-equipped models can turn an HDS GPS Chartplotter (or GlobalMap® chartplotter with yellow ethernet connector) into a powerful combination fishfinder/chartplotter with complete sonar graph control when networked by Lowrance Ethernetworks.

 

 

New High-Definition Insight Mapping

Lowrance offers a stunning new world of cartography options that go to greater depths, and heights, in dimensional GPS navigation reference and guidance.

Insight delivers unprecedented inland mapping and coastal charting detail with lightning-fast screen display updates. Amazing contour shading lends life-like perspectives to bottom structure as well as topography. HDS Insight mapping choices include:

Lake Insight™ (for HDS-5) -U.S. inland mapping, includes nearly 5,000 freshwater lake maps with life-like perspective of bottom structure and topography. Coverage includes the Great Lakes and more than 500 Fishing Hot Spots® Lakes – a $400 value!

Nautic Insight™ (for HDS-5) - Offers a superior like-like view of coastal bottom structure with detailed coastal and offshore depth contours, plus nav aids, for the entire U.S. coastline.
Insight USA™ (for HDS-7, -8 and -10 models) - Combines inland and coastal coverage areas of Lake Insight™ and Nautic Insight™.

 

The Enhanced U.S. Basemap offer the same geographic coverage area as Insight, with over 100,000 bodies of water and nearly 5,000 enhanced U.S. lakes with high detail lake shorelines and contours.

HDS Charting Options Go All-Platinum*

Your trusted favorites in Lowrance 2D mapping choices, like Fishing Hot Spots® PRO and LakeMaster® ProMaps are fully functional with HDS. Lowrance HDS expands your world of high-detail, high-definition 3D charting options with total compatibility for all 2009 (and earlier) Navionics® chartcards.

Platinum+ and Platinum – Revealing 3D views of bottom structure, and incredibly detailed satellite imagery, for the ultimate enhancement to navigation and fishing.
HotMaps Platinum – Fantastically detailed 3D lake surveys with fishing points of interest give marked advantages for the serious angler and tournament competitor.
Exclusive TurboView™ Advantage – This exclusive HDS built-in graphics engine delivers seamless zooms and 2D-3D chart displays, real-time 3D map nav data overlay, striking depth views in 2D and 3D, plus high-speed panning/zooming with detailed aerial views for all Platinum chartcards, and seamless zoom for Navionics® Gold.
Plays Favorites – HDS is also fully compatible with your library of Navionics® Gold, Silver, Classic and HotMaps chartcards.

HDS Expandability Options

Lowrance HDS for 2009 presents a wider range of advanced accessory options to enhance your on-the-water experience, safety and enjoyment.

Ethernetworks NEP-1 Expansion Port - All HDS models come fully ethernet-ready to share high-bandwidth data among all multi-function HDS displays on the boat, including sonar graphs, SIRIUS® weather/radio and radar.

Full NMEA 2000® Networking - HDS comes with full connectivity for the advanced NMEA standard in boat systems data sharing, backed by the most extensive and affordable selection of smart sensors for systems monitoring, including engine and fuel flow for optimum operating economies.

High Definiton Digital Radar - Advanced Lowrance digital signal processing in high-definition radome choices for HDS. Fast, detailed radar detection of even small and distant targets with superb accuracy in dark, fog and rain alike. Compact, dependable and high-performance, both network with Ethernetworks for onboard radar display sharing.

New LWX-1 SIRIUS® Satellite Weather Radio Smart Antenna - Lowrance presents two industry firsts with HDS chartplotters: SIRIUS® satellite high-res NOWRad® weather radar and radio services via an affordable and integrated smart antenna/module bundle, AND the first SIRIUS® Inland weather service … in addition to Coastal coverage … in two special SIRIUS® U.S. subscription packages.