"Peter Aitken" wrote in
m:

Thanks for the excellent report. In fact I was considering the 2KW
radome. I will keep this in mind.

--
Peter Aitken



Raymarine told us this "only happens in certain climates", but I'm not
buying it. I want to pull the top off other domes in our marina to see
what their radars look like in our "certain climates".

How stupid. The damned thing is made of POTMETAL!...ZINC! Where the
connectors go into it, it's OPEN! All the water trapped in the dome is
easily sucked inside as things heat and cool. The last one died because it
trashed the electronics that drives the PRINTER STEPPER MOTOR! Yes, the
drive motor for the cheap little, UNCOATED, printed circuit board it uses
for a phased-array antenna, driven by a little tape recorder rubber belt,
is straight out of a printer, used to pull the head back and forth. It's
on TOP of the potmetal chassis fully exposed to water it never would be in
a printer.

Well, after all, it's only $2000. What would you expect?



--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.