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4. Which course should be fed in to a stabilized radar picture?
true course
5. How to reduce beam width distortion?
reduce Gain
6. What is the purpose of the HL-suppress button?
to switch off the HL temporarily
7. What is the purpose of the Brilliance control?
Adjust signal intensity on the display
8. Marine radar range accuracy is generally?
- High
MARINE RADAR PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION
1. The radar must be able to operate in relative wind speeds up to?
- 100 knots
2. What is the required accuracy of the heading marker?
- +/- 1 deg
3. IMO resolution 477 applies to all ships built after?
- 1984
4. What is the minimum radar display diameter for ships of 10000 tons and upwards?
- 16 inch
5. What is the minimum number if range scales required?
-5
6. What is the minimum display diameter required on ships bigger than 1600 tons but less than
10000 tons?
- 250mm
7. What is the maximum radar warm-up time?
- 4 min
8. It is a requirement to have the HM-suppress button spring loaded?
- Yes, it is a IMO requirement.
PLOTTING
1. When plotting north up, you plot?
- Bearings
2. What is the effect of gyro error?
- All bearings will be wrong.
3. What is the main advantage of true plotting?
- Easy to understand
4. What is the main purpose of plotting?
- Obtain information about weather danger of collision exists, CPA, TCPA, targets course and
speed
5. What is the main purpose of Seaspeak?
- Reduce maritime communication problems.
6. What is the effect of error in time between two plots?
- Error in CPA, TCPA and target course.
7. What is the effect of using incorrect bearings in plotting?