Lowrance HOOK-5, HOOK-9 User Manual

HOOK Series

Operation manual

ENGLISH

HOOK-4 HOOK-5 HOOK-7 HOOK-9

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Compliance Statements

Lowrance HOOK-4, HOOK-5, HOOK-7 and HOOK-9

• meets the technical standards in accordance with Part 15.103 of the FCC rules

• complies with CE under RTTE directive 1999/5/EC

• complies with the requirements of level 2 devices of the Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Compatibility) standard 2008

For more information please refer to our website: www.lowrance.com.

Warning

The user is cautioned that any changes or modications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that the interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the

equipment o and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that of the receiver

• Consult the dealer or an experienced technician for help

WARNING: When a GPS unit is used in a vehicle, the vehicle operator is solely responsible for operating the vehicle in a safe manner. Vehicle operators must maintain full surveillance of all pertinent driving or boating conditions at all times. An accident or collision resulting in damage to property, personal injury or death could occur if the operator of a GPS-equipped vehicle fails to pay full attention to travel conditions

and vehicle operation while the vehicle is in motion.

NOTE: This manual covers HOOK-4, HOOK-5, HOOK-7 and HOOK-9 units. As a result, screenshots of

menus and dialogs may not match the look of your unit.

Table of contents

Introduction ...................................... 6

Unit controls.............................................6

Inserting microSD cards .......................... 7

Basic operation................................ 8

Setup wizard ............................................ 8

Pages ......................................................8

Selecting pages ....................................... 8

Page menus ............................................8

Working with menus ..............................10

Dialogs...................................................10

Entering text .......................................... 11

Fishing modes ....................................... 11

Cursor .................................................... 12

Goto cursor ............................................ 12

Advanced mode ....................................13

Standby mode .......................................13

Restore defaults ....................................13

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Pages .............................................. 14

Steer page ............................................. 14

Sonar page ............................................ 14

Downscan page .................................... 15

Chart page ............................................. 15

Combo pages ........................................ 16

Overlay data .......................................... 17

Sonar operation ............................. 18

CHIRP ...................................................18

Trackback ..............................................19

Sonar menu ........................................... 19

Sonar options ........................................23

Downscan options ................................. 24

Sonar settings........................................25

Installation .............................................27

DownScan operation ..................... 28

Trackback .............................................28

DownScan menu ................................... 28

Ping speed.............................................30

Downscan options ................................. 30

Chart operation .............................. 33

Chart menu ............................................ 33

Waypoints, Routes, Trails ......................34

Routes screen .......................................35

Trails screen ..........................................39

Orientation ............................................. 41

Chart settings ........................................42

Navigation settings ................................ 43

AIS................................................... 45

AIS setup ............................................... 45

Target symbols ......................................46

Viewing AIS target information ..............47

Settings .......................................... 48

Settings menu........................................48

System...................................................48

Alarms ..................................................50

Saving screenshots ............................... 50

Specications ................................ 52

Index ............................................... 56

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Introduction

Unit controls

LIGHT/POWER: controls backlight level

and turns unit on/off

KEYPAD: controls cursor & selects

items on menus

PAGES: allows you to select a page to

view

MENU: opens settings, context and

page menus

ENTER: nalizes menu selections; save

waypoint at cursor position

MOB: press and hold both Zoom keys to

create a Man Overboard waypoint

ZOOM Keys: used to zoom in/zoom out

microSD slot: insert a blank microSD card to save

screen captures; or insert a microSD mapping card to use mapping data

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Turn unit

on/off

Man

Overboard

waypoint

Adjusting

the

backlight

Muting

Audio

Getting started

To turn on/off the unit, press and hold the LIGHT/POWER key for three seconds.

Press the ZOOM IN and ZOOM OUT keys at the same time to set a Man Overboard waypoint. Your system will automatically create an active route back to the MOB waypoint. You must cancel navigation to terminate the function.

This unit has Press the LIGHT/POWER key to switch backlight levels.

Select Audio from the System menu and press ENTER. Enable/

disable

10 backlight levels.

Mute.

Inserting microSD cards

Carefully slide the microSD card into the slot until it clicks into place. To remove, carefully push in the card until it clicks out of place.

HOOK-5, HOOK-7 and HOOK-9

HOOK-4

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Basic operation

Setup wizard

The Setup wizard will appear when the unit is turned on for the rst time. To choose your own settings, do not run the setup wizard. To restart the Setup wizard, restore defaults.

Pages

Pages dialog

NOTE: Available pages vary depending on the unit and the connected transducer.

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Selecting pages

To select a page, press the keypad in the direction of the desired page and press ENTER.

Page menus

The Steer, Downscan, Sonar and Chart pages have menus that can only be accessed when those pages are displayed.

Steer menu

Steer page

Combo pages

Downscan page

Sonar page

Chart page

Downscan menu

Sonar menu

Chart menu

Two-panel page

Three-panel page

Press the PAGES key twice to switch active panels. The page menu for active page will be displayed when the MENU key is pressed. The active panel is denoted by an orange border.

Accessing the Settings menu

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Accessing menu items

On/Off features

The keypad and ENTER key are used to select menu items and open submenus. Use the keypad to highlight the desired item and press ENTER.

Working with menus

There are several menu types used to make adjustments to options and settings, including scrollbars, on/o features and dropdown menus.

Scrollbars

Select the scrollbar and press the keypad left (decrease) or right (increase).

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Select an on/o menu item and press ENTER to turn it on/o.

Dropdown menus

Access the dropdown menu and press the keypad up/down to select the desired item and press

ENTER.

NOTE: Press the MENU key to Exit

menus.

Dialogs

Dialogs are used for user input or for presenting information to the user. Depending on the type of entry, dierent methods are used to conrm, cancel or close the dialog.

Entering text

Fishing modes

Some functions, like naming a waypoint, route or trail, will require you to input text.

To input text:

1. Use the keypad to select the desired character and press ENTER.

2. Repeat Step 1 for each character.

3. When entry is completed, highlight OK and press ENTER.

Switches letters to uppercase/ lowercase

Switches keyboard between Alpha and QWERTY layout

(Conventional sonar only)

Fishing modes enhance the performance of your unit by providing preset packages of sonar settings geared to specic shing conditions.

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Fishing mode options

General Use 1000 ft or less Coastal

Shallow Water

Fresh Water 400 ft or less Inland/Near coastal

Deep Water 1000 ft or more Offshore

Slow Trolling

Fast Trolling

Clear Water 400 ft or less Inland/Coastal

Brackish Water

Ice 400 ft or less Ice shing

60 ft or less

400 ft or less Inland/Coastal

400 ft or less Fresh-Saltwater mix

Shallow weedy

bottoms

NOTE: Use Fresh Water mode when shing in less than 100 feet of water; otherwise your unit may not track bottom properly.

Cursor

The keypad moves the cursor around the display, allowing you to scroll the map, select map items and review sonar history.

Press MENU and select Return to vessel or Exit cursor mode to clear the cursor.

Goto cursor

Used to navigate to the cursor.

1. Move the cursor to a desired location and press MENU.

2. Select Goto cursor and press ENTER.

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Advanced mode

Enables advanced features and settings.

Press the PWR/LIGHT key to access the Backlight dialog.

The following features are enabled when Advanced mode is turned on:

• Navigation (Enables arrival radius, offcourse distance and Bearings setting)

• Alarms (Enables arrival, off course and anchor alarm options)

• NMEA 0183 Output (Requires optional

Power/NMEA cable 000-0127-49)

• Units (Enables distance, speed, depth, temperature, and bearings options)

Standby mode

Lowers power consumption by turning o sonar and the display.

NOTE: Leaving your unit in Standby mode when your boat is not in use will run down your battery.

Restore defaults

Resets unit options and settings to defaults.

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Sonar page

Displays the water column moving from right to left on your unit’s screen.

Fish

Surface clutter

Depth contours

Current location

Cursor

Structure

Range scale

Downscan page

The Downscan page shows the water column moving from right to left. You can overlay downscan sonar on the conventional sonar page by selecting Downscan Overlay on the Sonar settings menu.

Current cursor location; distance to cursor

Waypoint

Chart page

Consists of map that moves in real-time as you move. By default, the map is shown from a birdseye view with North at the top of the screen.

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Zoom Range

Combo pages

This unit has four pre-congured combo pages.

Chart/Sonar Chart/Downscan

Sonar/Downscan Chart/Sonar/Downscan

Customizing combo pages

You can adjust the panel size of combo pages and control how the pages will be arranged on the screen: vertically (side) or horizontally (over).

To make adjustments to combo page panels, select a combo page from the Pages carousel and press MENU.

NOTE: To adjust panel size, access the customize menu after selecting a combo page for display and select Panel size.

NOTE: Press the PAGES key twice to switch active panels.

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Overlay data

Used to select data shown on the Sonar, Structure and Chart pages.

Overlay data

Show

Enables/disables the display of overlay data, allowing you to remove overlay data from the screen without deleting the current overlay data conguration.

Congure

Allows you to select/customize overlay data.

To add overlay data:

1. From the Sonar, Chart or DownScan page, press MENU.

2. Select Overlay data and press ENTER.

3. Select Congure and press ENTER.

4. Press MENU and select Add. Press ENTER.

5. Select a data category and press ENTER.

6. Select the desired data and press ENTER.

7. Press MENU and select Return to Overlays. Press ENTER.

8. Press MENU, select Done Conguring and press ENTER.

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Sonar operation

This unit supports two types of sonar: Conventional and Downscan.

The features described in this section are for conventional sonar. Refer to the Downscan section for information on Downscan features.

CHIRP

A CHIRP (Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse) transducer transmits a modulated pulse of multiple frequencies within the bandwidth

of the selected transducer type. This results in better image quality, better target separation and greater depth penetration.

This unit supports High CHIRP, Medium CHIRP and Low CHIRP, depending on the transducer.

CHIRP can be used with Lowrance conventional sonar transducers.

• 50/200 kHz (Low/High CHIRP)

• 83/200 kHz (Medium/High CHIRP)

To use CHIRP, select the desired CHIRP frequency from the Frequency menu.

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