Thread: Internal vs external antenna

From reading posts on this forum, seems allot of folks use external antennas. Does the external antenna offer better performance or is this just a personal preference? Getting ready to by a 788 unit but figure I would ask this before placing my order. Thanks for your help.

My considerations was to have the antenna close to the transducer since mine was to be used on the bow. I didn't like seeing the antenna on the stern and your graphs transducer was on the trolling motor and trying to locate brush piles on the graph. I usually just work a brush pile using the waypoints and not toss out a bouy marker. I have a internal antenna and yes my graph will be unusable if the antenna need some repairs and I didn't really have that much room on the bow for another item like a external antenna. Just my thoughts and what I've done.

one of the big disadvantages of the internal antenna is if your going to flush mount it inside a console or something like that...they dont pick up well
i like the External antennas much less problems with them i think