Picture Presets - Furuno FAR-1416 Operator's Manual

Note: When the conditions shown below are met, off-center cannot be canceled. This
is because the radar antenna position is located at a position greater than 75% of the
effective radar display.
• Own ship marker is large.
• Short-distance display range.
To cancel the off-center, select a larger range, then cancel the off-center.
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Picture Presets

Every time your navigating environment or task changes, you must adjust the radar,
which can be a nuisance in a busy situation. Instead of changing radar settings case
by case, it is possible to assign the function keys to provide optimum settings for often-
encountered situations.
The radar's internal computer offers several picture preset options to be assigned to
each function key for your specific navigating requirements. For instance, one of the
presets is [ROUGH SEA], and is designed to be used in heavy rain.
Two user-programmable presets are also provided (labeled as [CUSTOM1/2]), so that
you can have the radar automatically set to those conditions which are not covered by
the provided setup options.
Below are the preset options provided with this radar.
Label
CUSTOM1
CUSTOM2
CALM SEA
RAIN
ROUGH SEA
NET FLOAT
BIRD
COAST
OCEAN
BUOY
Each picture option defines a combination of several radar settings for achieving op-
timum setup for a particular navigating situation. These include interference rejector,
echo stretch, echo average, noise rejector, automatic anti-sea and anti-rain clutters,
video contrast, pulse length and sea and radar conditions.
Changing these features from the [CUSTOMIZE ECHO] menu changes the original
function key settings. To restore the original settings for a particular customize option,
it is necessary to select the default setting. For this reason, we recommended that you
use the user-programmable presets ([CUSTOM1] or [CUSTOM2]) when frequent ad-
justment of the radar image is necessary.
User-defined custom settings.
User-defined custom settings.
Optimum setting for calm sea.
Optimum setting for normal rain.
Optimum setting for rough weather or heavy rain.
Optimum setting for dim day.
Optimum setting for detecting birds.
Optimum setting for short range detection using a range scale of 3
NM or less on calm seas.
Optimum setting for long range detection, on a range scale of 6 NM
or larger.
Optimum setting for detecting buoys.
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