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Discover how your new radar unit makes navigating easy, taking you where you want to go and back again with just the push of a button.
These easy-to-understand videos teach you how to really use your equipment and will get you up and running in no time.
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The Boaters Guide to Using Marine Radar |
 | Radar is the most interactive aid to navigation.
Using it with competence demands far more expertise than with a GPS unit. The primary purpose of marine radar is to serve as an aid to collision avoidance. It can increase boaters' safety on the water more than any other electronic devise allowing boaters to "see" through rain, darkness, poor visibility and fog. It can confirm your position relative to landmarks and navigational aids and alert you to other vessels and coastal outlines.
However, the ultimate value of radar and all electronic equipment lies with the boater's ability to understand and properly use the information on the display.
Within the last few years the costs of radar units, especially the smaller LCD display units, have been substantially reduced, making it feasible even for small boats to take advantage of radar equipment.
This program teaches boaters' what radar is, how it works and how you can get the most from these important navigators. It teaches boaters how alarms can be set, to alert you that targets are entering a particular location or that your own boat is nearing a dangerous area. Echo trails can help you access the movement of targets relative to your own boat. Radar can also be used to determine your position to back up chart information, electronic aids to navigation and used to navigate to a specific location.
For Fishermen, Radar is often used to locate sea birds that help them locate fish and improve their catch!
This program covers radar resolution, beam width, pulse repetition rate, including an explanation of minimum and maximum detectable ranges. Subjects covered include; Radar controls such as power, gain, scanner, standby and transmit, A/C rain controls, A/C sea controls, display controls, range, range rings, VRM (Variable range marker), EBL (Electronic bearing line), plot, echo trails, relative and true bearing modes, shifting off center, zooming, interference rejection, guard alarms, echo stretch, ARPA, or Automatic Radar Plotting Aids and AIS (Automatic Identification Systems).
It also teaches boaters how to interpret the radar display, radar pictures, radar interference, target properties, multiple echoes, blind and shadow sectors, side lobe echoes, target material reflections and the effects of precipitation.
Teaches:
Principles of Radar:
Types of Radar Antenna, Types of Radar Displays, What Radar - Can Do For You, How Radar Works, Radar System Configurations, Radar Range, Unusual Propagation, Radar Terminology, Radar Controls
Radar Picture and Marks:
Measuring Range, Measuring Bearing, Sea Clutter, Rain Clutter, AIS, ARPA, Aids to Navigation
Interpreting the Display:
Radar Picture & Target Properties, Target Material & Reflected Echo, Precipitation, Influence of Waves & Precipitation, Advanced Radar Operation
40 min. N8991
DVD Version $29.95
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Mastering Marine Radar |  |
An Invaluable Guide For All Boaters!
This program features segments on the basic principles of radar navigation, interpreting radar displays along with all the features, functions and types of radar displays available to the boater. Covers radar horizon, displaying targets, range of bearing, interfacing, echoes and more.
40 min. N8985
DVD Version $29.95
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Radar Navigation & Collision Avoidance |
 | Whether you're a commercial navigator or a pleasure boater...
A home-study course and practical guide to radar observing techniques for the pleasure boat skipper and light commercial vessel captain.
The invention of marine radar was a major contribution towards safer navigation. Casual radar observation often leads to misinterpretation of radar information, which has been the direct cause of major and minor marine casualties. Without understanding and applying the principles of "relative motion", it is nearly impossible to correctly analyze a traffic situation on radar.
Assumptions, guesswork and confusion are often the end result, which combined with low visibility and speed is courting with disaster. Doubts, guesswork and assumptions simply don't belong on the bridge of any vessel, including small craft. Although there are thousands of radars in use aboard pleasure craft and light commercial vessels, no serious attempt has ever been made to introduce proper radar observation procedures and techniques to those who are responsible for the safe operation of those vessels.
The main design criteria for this production was to provide the small to medium size commercial vessel captain and pleasure craft skipper, who are not required by law to demonstrate proficiency in radar observation, with a convenient home-study and reference material package, covering all aspects of practical radar observing and plotting procedures for their specific needs. Adding a sound knowledge of radar observer skills to your bag of nautical tricks will add a new dimension of pleasure to your boating and increase the safety afloat for all who share the water with you.
104 min. N297
DVD Version $39.95
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