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From: Peter Bennett (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 11:49:22 EDT
Thursday, July 1, 2004, 6:21:40 AM, Jb0847borden wrote:
Jac> Does anybody have any experience with this unit?
Jac> Is the target separation decent in close in situations?
Jac> Is the unit user friendly?
I recently installed a JRC 1500 Mk II - it seems to work well, and is
fairly easy to use. I would like an easier way to switch between
range selection and gain setting - as it is, one knob is used for these
functions, sea clutter, tune and rain suppression - you press the knob
to step through the functions, so you have to press the knob half a
dozen times to switch from range to gain and back.
I haven't had to use the Radar in poor visibility yet, but the
resolution appears to be adequate.
Last weekend, my boat was committee boat for a sailing race, and we
had the mark boat measure the length of the starting line with GPS -
the PRO thought the line was about 600 ft (0.1 mi.), but the GPS said
900 (0.15 mi.), so I checked it with the radar, and confirmed that the
GPS measurement was correct. There was a large sail training ship 0.2
mile away, and in line with our mark - no problem distinguishing our
mark boat from the ship.
-- Peter Bennett, VE7CEI Vancouver, B.C., Canada GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver-webpages.com/van-ps _______________________________________________ http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering To Unsubscribe send email to Include the word Unsubscribe (and nothing else) in the subject or body of the message.
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