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"Steve Lusardi" wrote:

The Furuno is a fairly inexpensive RADAR and yet according to you, it is
doing
nearly impossible things.

Joe,
You are correct, it does, but it's good if it can. 80 nano sec. is quick.
Many of the commercial sets cannot.
Steve

80 nanoseconds isn't all that quick, in Xband, with SolidState Receiver
Frontends, Ring Circulators instead of the old T/R Cells of yesteryear,
and SolidState Modulator Strings instead of the old 2E25 Tube modulators
of yesteryear. Third and fourth generation commerical marine radars, have
been doing this good, for at least 20 years. What many "commercial sets"
can't do, is overcome the cheap design tradeoffs that most OEM's have
made to keep their equipment affordable to the guy who only runs his
yatch once or twice a year. If you pay the price for a good marine
radar, you will get the preformance that your looking for. If not
you will get what the Yatch Club Crowd, thinks they should have to pay.
$5kUS buys a reasonable marine radar, and $10KUS buys you what you
really want, but can't justify to the MRS....... Commercial Operators
buy the later........


Bruce in alaska
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