Table Of Contents - Furuno FR-1908V-BB Operator's Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD .................................................................................................................viii
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ..........................................................................................ix
1. OPERATION ..........................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Controls...................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.2 How to Turn the Radar On/Off ................................................................................... 1-1
1.3 How to Transmit ......................................................................................................... 1-2
1.4 Radar Display Indications .......................................................................................... 1-2
1.5 Menu Operation ......................................................................................................... 1-4
1.5.1 How to operate the radar from the icons........................................................ 1-4
1.5.2 Menu window ................................................................................................. 1-5
1.5.3 How to show the hidden icons ....................................................................... 1-5
1.5.4 List windows................................................................................................... 1-6
1.6 How to Adjust Display Brilliance, Panel Dimmer ....................................................... 1-6
1.6.1 Display brilliance ............................................................................................ 1-6
1.6.2 Panel dimmer ................................................................................................. 1-7
1.6.3 Brilliance Sets ................................................................................................ 1-7
1.7 Color Scheme ............................................................................................................ 1-9
1.8 Tuning ...................................................................................................................... 1-11
1.8.1 How to select the tuning method.................................................................. 1-11
1.8.2 Automatic tuning .......................................................................................... 1-11
1.8.3 Manual tuning............................................................................................... 1-11
1.8.4 How to initialize tuning ................................................................................. 1-11
1.9 Echo Area ................................................................................................................ 1-12
1.10 Operation Modes...................................................................................................... 1-12
1.10.1 How to select an operation mode................................................................. 1-12
1.10.2 Orientation mode.......................................................................................... 1-13
1.10.3 How to select an orientation mode............................................................... 1-14
1.10.4 How to change orientation mode presets..................................................... 1-15
1.11 How to Select the Range Scale ............................................................................... 1-15
1.12 Pulse width............................................................................................................... 1-17
1.12.1 How to change a pulse width ....................................................................... 1-17
1.12.2 How to select a pulse width.......................................................................... 1-18
1.13 How to Adjust the Gain (sensitivity) ......................................................................... 1-18
1.14 How to Reduce the Sea Clutter................................................................................ 1-19
1.15 How to Reduce the Rain Clutter............................................................................... 1-20
1.16 Cursor ...................................................................................................................... 1-20
1.17 FTC (Fast Time Constant) ....................................................................................... 1-21
1.18 How to Measure the Range to a Target (VRM)........................................................ 1-21
1.19 How to Measure the Bearing to a Target (EBL) ....................................................... 1-22
1.20 Offset EBL................................................................................................................ 1-23
1.20.1 How to measure the range and bearing between two targets...................... 1-23
1.20.2 Collision assessment by offset EBL ............................................................. 1-25
1.20.3 Point of reference for origin point of offset EBL ........................................... 1-26
1.21 How to Off-center the Display .................................................................................. 1-27
1.22 Interference Rejecter................................................................................................ 1-28
1.23 Echo Stretch............................................................................................................. 1-28
1.24 Echo Averaging........................................................................................................ 1-29
1.25 Target Trails ............................................................................................................. 1-29
1.25.1 How to start, stop the trails........................................................................... 1-29
1.25.2 [TRAIL] menu ............................................................................................... 1-30
1.25.3 Trail mode .................................................................................................... 1-30
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