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Furuno Introduces

New Digiscan Radars —Literature Available

Furuno announces a new family of modest cost, high performance radars that combine the most ad- vanced technical features with tra- ditional Furuno quality and reliabil- ity.

The Furuno FR-800D Digiscan radars have a high brightness, steady picture 12 inch CRT: range scales from % to 36, 48 or 72 nautical miles; output power to 10 kw; anten- na lengths from 3 to 8 feet; plus a whole variety of standard built-ins like variable pulselength and PRF's, sea and rain clutter controls, inter- ference rejector, target plot with six selectable intervals, dual variable range markers, dual electronic bear- ing lines, adjustable sector and range guard zone with alarm, uni- versal 10.2-40 VDC power supply.

Furuno's custom hybrid micro- wave IC circuitry lets the equipment perform like other radars needing twice the output power, while re- ducing routine maintenance re- quirements. The Digiscan advan- tage is the way signal processing is done.

Most existing digital, or "raster- scan," radars use single-level quan- tization. That is, the returning echo is either present or not present, either "on" or "off". Where the tar-

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Nova Scotia,

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Telex: 420368 get is weak, or there is heavy precip- itation or high seas, there's a chance that important targets may not quite reach a level that is recognized as "present" on the radar. Even seemingly solid targets like a harbor entrance through a breakwater can- not be seen because of "holes" on the screen caused by the system not being sure of whether or not a target is there.

Furuno's Digiscan system recog- nizes several levels of target re- turn—weak, medium, strong—even in heavy weather. This produces an exceptionally clear radar presenta- tion with all the brightness and pic- ture steadiness one could want.

For literature containing full in- formation on Furuno's Digiscan Ra- dars,

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Northern New England

ASNE Announces New

Officers For 84-85 Season

The Northern New England Sec- tion of the American Society of

Naval Engineers has announced its slate of officers for the forthcoming 1984-85 season as follows: chairman,

Cdr. John B. Cavender, USN; vice chairman, Capt. Rodney K.

Watterson, USN; treasurer, Ger- ald J. Gouveia; secretary, Terry

K. Hardy; councilman (3 years),

Capt. John A. Culver, USNR; councilman (2 years), Cdr. Nor- man K. Berge, USN (Ret.); coun- cilman (1 year), Philip V. John- son.

Rolls-Royce Gets Contract

For Gas Turbines

To Power Dutch Frigates

A contract worth about $17 mil- lion was signed recently in the

Netherlands between Rolls-Royce and the Dutch shipbuilder Royal

Shelde for the supply of Marine

Spey gas turbines to be manufac- tured at Rolls-Royce's Coventry,

England, plant. The engines are for a new class of multipurpose (M) fri- gates for the Royal Netherlands

Navy.

The contract follows an an- nouncement made earlier this year by the British and Dutch Defense

Procurement Ministers of an Anglo/

Dutch agreement to order Marine

Spey units to power the M frigate.

Since 1972, Rolls-Royce has sup- plied 56 marine gas turbines for installation in 14 Royal Netherlands

Navy frigates and destroyers, as well as others for corvettes and frigates exported from Holland to Greece and Indonesia. This latest order in- creases the number of Marine Speys ordered by British, Japanese, and

Dutch navies, for five classes of war- ships, to a total of 57.

The Marine Spey is Rolls-Royce's latest marine gas turbine engine, following the highly successful

Olympus and Tyne units. It devel- ops 24,000 hp, with a thermal effi- ciency of 37 percent.

For additional information on

Rolls-Royce gas turbines,

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