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Navigation/Communications

Equipment — A Review (continued) with other commercially available marine products featuring a com- patible interface.

The new instrument has a large liquid crystal display that is clearly viewable in surroundings ranging from bright sunlight to completely darkened environments. Software customization is available, and a "daisy chain" capability for multi- ple display requirements is built in.

A complete internal self-test is ac- complished automatically each time it is turned on.

Remote installation can, under certain conditions, be as far away as 1,000 feet, with mounting on a bulk- head, tabletop, panel, or overhead.

The product is engineered to mili- tary specifications for vibration, can withstand shock of 50 Gs for 11 mil- liseconds, and can function in 100- percent humidity with tempera- tures ranging from 0 to 70 C.

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RAYTHEON SERVICE

The Marine Department of Ray- theon Service Company (RSC), headquartered in Glen Burnie, Md., provides sales, installation, service, and maintenance for a wide variety of marine navigational and commu- nications equipment and systems, including radars, Fathometers, sat- ellite communications, SOLAS ra- dio stations, syro/steering systems, and fuel management systems.

In addition to the head office,

RSC operates at eight other loca- tions around the country, in Los

Angeles, San Diego, Houston, New

Orleans, Norfolk, Baltimore, Phila- delphia, and the New York/New

Jersey area. The company main- tains a million-dollar inventory of spare parts.

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RDI

RDI Radar Devices, Inc. of San

Leandro, Calif., a leading manufac- turer of guard zone warning equip- ment, offers several new navigation and communications products.

These include the RDI ARPA I,

M10 Collision Avoidance System,

Star* Trac Satellite Navigator, and

Satcom I Inmarsat Satellite Com- munications System.

For shipowners having to comply with the mandatory International

Maritime Organization (IMO)

ARPA fitting, the RDI ARPA I,

M10 represents the most econom- ical solution.

The Amendments to the Interna- tional Convention for the Safety of

Life at Sea, SOLAS 1974, adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee in November 1981, state: "Automat- ic radar plotting aids fitted prior to

September 1, 1984 which do not ful- ly conform to the performance stan- dards adopted by the Organization may, at the discretion of the Admin- istration, be retained until January 1, 1991."

In simple terms, this statement provides an opportunity for a ship- owner to fit an RDI ARPA I to a 12-inch radar and comply with the spirit of the IMO regulations until 1991.

In 1982, the U.S. Coast Guard permitted an add-on ARPA solution for existing 12-inch radars. These

ARPA I/12-inch radar combinations may be retained until 1991 when the

IMO ARPA specifications take full effect.

The Star* Trac satellite naviga- tor, a commercial satnav at a com- petitive price, offers 64 navigation displays plus log/gyro interface for a list price of $2,495".

The new RDI Satcom I features a self-prompting keyboard to make operations simple. Designed for use with Inmarsat, the unit can be inter- faced wtih the Star* Trac satnav to provide an automatic vessel moni- toring system for less than $33,000.

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REGENCY

Regency Electronics, Inc. of Indi- anapolis, Ind., recently introduced the Polaris MT6500, a synthesized marine band receiver. The unit op- erates on all U.S. and international channels, 10 weather channels, and has capacity to add up to 10 private channels. The scanning receiver sec- tion can be programmed to scan as few as two or as many as all of the marine channels.

All information is entered into the microprocessor through the back- lighted, transluscent rubber key- board. Channel numbers and prompting information is displayed on the vacuum fluorescent display.

A special feature of the MT6500 is a programmable, dual-priority capa- bility that either automatically re- verts to the priority channel when a call is received on beeps to let the operator know there is a call on the priority channel.

The American-made Polaris

MT6500 also features a 25/1 watt selector, bright/dim panel light con-

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