| Title: | SAILING |
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| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2299 |
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So I'm thinking of being a good Santa to myself & bringing me a
Radar.
After much reading a spec comparing with a sprinkling of trying
to be rational about need and use I found myself looking seroiusly
at the APELCO 9910. (Never thought I'd say that; but, it looks
like they've come a long way from the 9900 unit)
I guess I want it:
Mainly (as in Maine Fog?) if I ever need it when heading Downeast
Largely as a learning experiance
Really as a toy like most things on boats (it is Christmas)
I believe I understand the trade-offs vs the bigger units; but,
the small size & slightly lower bucks are attractive.
So my question is -- Anybody have some hands-on experiance with
this unit yet?? or Do you know of any major limitations I might
be missing??
Besides we needed some new topics for winter & I couldn't find anything
under the keyword "Radar"
A Good Holiday Season to all,
Lou "Phanta Sea"
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| 706.1 | 9910 | EVE::TWAITS | Wed Dec 09 1987 21:29 | 13 | |
Santa brought an Apelco 9910 to my house a couple days ago but I do not have any experience with it. The display does seem to be a lot better than the 9900 model was. I also considered the Raytheon R20 and R21 units and have the manuals if you would like to borrow them. Putting the scanner on the lazaret on a pole seems like the easiest installation, anyone have any first hand experience with shadowing caused by the mast and standing rigging with this approach? Do I need a license for this thing? | |||||
| 706.2 | Zzzapp... | SHIVER::JPETERS | John Peters, DTN 266-4391 | Thu Dec 10 1987 10:29 | 4 |
How much microwave energy exposure are you comfortable with?
J
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| 706.3 | hopefully not LCD.. | RDF::RDF | Rick Fricchione | Thu Dec 10 1987 20:13 | 13 |
Is this the little LCD display unit? If so the guy in the slip
next to me put one on his catalina and found it was only useful
up to 2 miles. Beyond that it did not distinguish very well and
had very little dependability.
Rick
* Who's waiting for the day you can have a remote display in the
cockpit before buying one. Its not much use if one person has
to babysit below decks in my opinion. As far as navigation goes,
a LORAN seems fine.
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| 706.4 | GoldStar Radar | SPCTRM::BURR | Mon Jan 11 1988 16:13 | 27 | |
For what it's worth this far after Christmas, I bought a Radar last
summer which has worked out very well.
The unit I got is a GoldStar (made in Korea). It is a 24 mile unit
with an enclosed antenna and is the 'digital scanning' variety;
meaning that it uses a digitally interfaced CRT (green phosphor)
and does not have the sweep. The unit is mounted on my mizzen just
below the spreaders (about 25 feet above the deck). Its almost
identical to the Furuno unit except that the transmitter electronics
are discrete rather than the VLSI design of the Furuno. (I decided
that if something fails in the unit I didn't want to have to replace
the VLSI chip that Furuno charges $720 for.)
After a season of use, I have been very pleased with the unit.
It works beautifully, has excellent resolution and noise rejection
and has reduced my heartburn quotient conciderably on a few foggy
nights. My only complaint is that, while the unit is incredibly
simple to use, the documentation is indecipherable.
The unit cost $1986.00 plus installation.
PS. All radars reject any echo received from an object less than
75 feet away. Also, while I guess radar transmissions travel
in a straight line, as the transmitter rotates and 'sprays'
its transmissions, there is no shadow from anything (of semi
reasonable size) on your boat.
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