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Furuno FAR15x8 Radar Series

Courtesy: Furuno USA “You don’t need any gyroscopes. The unique thing is that it puts out three axis speed; fore/aft speed, transverse speed and stern speed. You can tell if you’re being pushed or if your tow is dragging in a different direction.” – Bill Haynes, Furuno Deep Sea Product Manager assigns each different colors, depend- target that’s moving at you, the target ing on whether the target is moving changes color. That shows you it’s a or stationary. It is particularly useful moving object and not just a buoy,” under heavy rain or snow conditions he says. “That’s going to be really where surface re? ection can cause in- helpful in high traf? c.” terference and noise and it can also The new radar also offers Fast Target place hatching over heavy rain areas, Tracking which can display the speed allowing a clearer view of potential and course vector of any target in just targets. SDS’ Collins was impressed a few seconds. “Normally when opera- with the feature. “When you have a tors click on a target to acquire it and www.marinelink.com

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