JimH wrote:
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Chuck Gould wrote:
I've finally had it with my old radar.

It still works, after taking what seems like about five minutes for
the tube to warm up.
The display is fine, as long as it isn't daytime. During the daytime,
you have to look through a rubber "mask" that blocks out ambient
light- and also prevents you from seeing anything else *except* the
radar screen. The unit has been hanging from the headliner just about
an inch and a half too high for comfortable viewing through the mask,
so standing on tip-toe has long been a part of my radar routine.

The CRT display monitor is as big as a bread box, blocking vision to
an unneccesary degree even when radar isn't running (I run with it off
most of the time).

So this afternoon the whole shooting match was dismounted. It's off to
the
second hand marine consignment store with my Raytheon 2600
"Manufacture date, October 1981". I hope to get $300 for it, but will
probably have to take less. The next owner will appreciate that I
disconnected the wiring harness at both ends *and* have the original
Raytheon book and schematics illustrating where all the connections
should be remade.

RayMarine has a pretty god deal on the C-70 radar pack right now.
Hope you are paying less than $2200 for the C70 with the radome.
Heck, I hope is paying less than $1,800 for the C-70 with the
radome....this took me 5 minutes to find and is brand new:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rayma...QQcmdZViewItem

http://tinyurl.com/yoqsnr

Harry, did your purchase qualify for the $300 rebate from Raymarine?




I didn't buy a radar for my little feeeeeshing boat. I do have a Ray
feeeeeeeeshfinder, though. Got that from my dealer, along with a pretty
expensive transducer, and installation as part of my Yamaha engine rebate.