Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

[rmulhern]

I'm thinking of buying a Lowrance LMS 522C but read an owner review that said he had trouble with the waas antenna picking up signals. He contacted Lowrance and they told him to turn his unit over. This worked, it seems the antenna is mounted in the middle of the unit on the back. When he tilted the unit up to see while he was standing the unit lost signal. Anyone out there had the same problem?

 

[Barnacle_Bill]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

Turn it over? The 522 is a mounted unit not hand held.

 

[rmulhern]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

Yes it is mounted but you can take it out of the mount and turn it over. That is what this guy did. I was just at another site and read the consumer reviews there. There were more complaints of the same problem.

 

[Barnacle_Bill]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

Sounds like they need to go back to the external antenna like I have on my LCX27.

 

[U Rest U Rust]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

I have the 525 and using the external. no problems.

 

[miswirvin]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

The 525 is the way to go. It's priced right. but spend the extra 100.00 and get the chip, you'll be glad you did. You can flush mount the gps ant so it's low profile.

 

[miswirvin]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

I have installed probally 10 of them and no complants so far.

 

[ksnag]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

I installed a lowrance unit with external antenna, turned unit on and it would not lock on to satellite, maybe it was defective. I sent it back and replace it with a 522C, the unit was covered by the windshield. I turned it on, the boat was in the garage, the unit got the signal in about thirty seconds. Haven't had any trouble.

 

[Boatist]

Re: Anyone with a Lowrance LMS 522C

Most Gps antennas cover about 180 degrees max. With and external antenna you can mount the antenna where to points straight up so it covers 180 degrees or horzion to horzion.

Internal antenna are about the same but now it depends on how you mount the head unit to see the full SKY. If you mount it where the face is pointed toward the stearn the antenna is probably point near straight up. Now rotate it 90 degrees where the face is pointing straight up and it can be seen while standing means the antenna is not pointing to the bow. Half of the antenna view is into the bottom of the boat and the water where you will not see any satellites. So now the best you can hope for is to see half the sky. Add trees or a mountain to the front and you may not see any satellites at all.

I know I have both a Gramin and Lowrance handheld and by watching the satellite page and moving the unit around you can see how satellites drop out or half of the sky disappears. Lowrance much more sensitive than my garmin but both handhelds you can tune how many satellites you see by the units position.