Michael wrote:
Now that would explain why the 3cm set picks up a lot of small boat stuff .
..when it's working that is. Both ours are made by Sperry and I wouldn't
give you a nickel for all of them in the whole fleet.

OK, thanks for the info... not shopping for radar at the moment anyway.
I would have thought Sperry made pretty good stuff though.


.... The
other day we were talking about buying a small Furano and wiring it up on
the bridge with a 12 volt battery figuring we couldn't do any worse.

That's work, but because of the power limits you won't get any extra
range mounting it that high up. Get one of the wireless networking ones,
that way you can carry a repeater screen anywhere. Stand radar watch in
the chow line!

Anyway, if the ship is administered under NAVSEA don't change anything
on it. They get very angry (huff huff very angry indeed huff huff) when
people monkey around with their boats. I got in trouble for fixing a
tank level regulator on a whole class of ships, problem is I had a
machinist on a tender make a non-standard part...


... So the
10cm picks up the sailboats close in because of that width rule and in the
case below he had three reflectors up? We also get a lot of ghost returns
some do 50 and 60 knots but don't exist!

I'm not sure why that is, ghost returns seem to come & go even on the
best set ups. Multiple returns can be a timing problem, can you adjust
the rotation of your 10cm set?


... Worse yet we got a bunch of
returns in formation one day in the Red Sea and instead of ghosts turned out
to be the French Navy. Scary!

C'mon the Frech Navy isn't scary. And they couldn't have been in
formation unless the lead ship spilled their wine...

Fresh Breezes- Doug King