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Lowrance HDS 7 Dash Panel for Polaris RZR 900/800

Flush mounting your Lowrance HDS7 Gen 3 or Gen 2 Touch GPS unit is usually the preferred mounting method. However this hasn’t been easily doable in a Polaris RZR 900 or 800, until now. The new Rugged Routes RZR Dash for mounting a HDS 7 Gen 2 Touch or HDS 7 Gen 3, retains the factory gauge, 12v accessory plug, and ignition while also adding 6 accessory switch locations. The dash panel also includes the required body rivets for securing the panel to the vehicle, as well as stainless steel screws for securing the Lowrance unit to the panel. The panel itself, ships bare steel to be painted or powder coated to your personal preference.
To order, visit: Lowrance HDS 7 Dash for Polaris RZR or call 909-547-4651.

Glamis Dunes, CA Off Road GPS Map Card for Lowrance HDS

The Imperial Sand Dunes (Glamis) in CA is an extremely popular Thanksgiving destination, and due to popular demand, the map for Lowrance HDS GPS units is now shipping!
To order online, please visit: Glamis map for Lowrance HDS GPS

If you are looking for a map that we currently don’t offer, please submit a map request at: http://submit.ruggedroutes.com

**This Map was intended for Lowrance HDS GPS Units, Elite HD units are compatible with the exception of not not showing closures. for a map with full compatibility with Lowrance Elite GPS units, please contact us: 909-547-4651**

Imagery resolution is 1-Meter/Px.

Includes:

  • Fee Area Boundary
  • OHV Boundary
  • Competition Hill
  • Oldsmobile Hill
  • Brawley Slide
  • Lizard Hill
  • China Wall
  • The Ceiling
  • Critical Habitat Closures
  • Camping Area Closures
  • Wilderness Boundaries
  • Ranger Stations
  • Wahes
  • Ranger Stations
  • Campgrounds
  • Restrooms

We are now accepting dealer applications.
For more information, please reply to this e-mail or contact us at: 909-547-4651

Lowrance Satellite Radio & Weather Module Now Available!

This awesome modules pulls double duty in your Side x Side, 4×4, Prerunner or other vehicle providing both safety and entertainment. The WM-3 Lowrance Satellite Weather & Radio Module allows you to use your Lowrance GPS unit as your satellite radio receiver as well as including weather radar, forecasts, weather warnings and roadside fuel prices, plus up to 220 expanded audio channels — all controlled directly from your Lowrance HDS Gen2 button or touch screen model.

For more information & specifications or to purchase your Sirius Satellite Weather & Radio Module by Lowrance, visit: WM-3 SiriusXM Satellite Weather & Radio Module by Lowrance

*WM-3 operates with the new SiriusXM North America equatorial Satellite System.

Free Ham Radio Repeater Map Downloads for Lowrance

Regardless of how you enjoy the outdoors, communications for emergency situations is important. Having a ham radio is one of the most reliable ways to communicate especially when you know what repeaters are available to you to use. These are some of the reasons I teamed up with Garrett, KD6KPC, from RepeaterBook.com to add ham radio repeater location and frequency information to your Lowrance GPS unit and can be combined with other Rugged Routes maps. These repeater map downloads are available for free , state by state, here: Lowrance GPS Ham Radio Repeater Map Downloads

Please keep in mind that Garrett, KD6KPC, manages the RepeaterBook.com effort which runs on donations by people like you who find this information useful. Please consider sending RepeaterBook.com a donation to keep this effort going by using the following Donate button:
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Lowrance Off Road GPS Map Area Requests

Since the beginning of Rugged Routes, requests for new OHV GPS maps for Lowrance off road GPS units have been coming in from all directions. Which is great! It’s good to know that people like you are really liking the new trail maps with aerial/sat imagery. However, we need to get more input and start organizing it to better prioritize the release of these maps. We’ll start with the most popular areas as reflected by the data collected by the new OHV Map Area Request form.  It’s just a small handful of questions that you should be able to answer in about 1 minute. Please forward this link to your friends or even share it your local OHV club meeting. Your input is greatly appreciated!

The Off Road GPS Lab!

Since the beginning of Rugged Routes, there have various projects and setups going together behind the scenes which include methods that are not documented by Navico or Lowrance. The vast majority of their documentation is geared towards the guys and gals that play on the water rather than on land, like us. So thats where the GPS Lab comes in. Being that we’re most interested in using Lowrance GPS’s off road, we’ll be posting some in depth how-to articles on various Lowrance off road GPS tech projects & setups including but not limited to interfacing a Lowrance with a ham radio for APRS operation as well as hooking up various other sensors and accessories for off road vehicles. So stay tuned, subscribe to the GPS Labs RSS Feed or even just follow us on Facebook.