User Manual

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Contents
For safety
CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW.........................................................................8
1.1 Introduction............................................................................................................8
1.2 Organization of This Manual................................................................................8
CHAPTER 2 USING RADAR FOR THE FIRST TIME ..........................9
2.1 What is a radar ?....................................................................................................9
2.2 Characteristics of Radar Wave .............................................................................10
2.3 Terms Specific to Radars.......................................................................................13
CHAPTER 3 INSTALLATION.................................................................16
3.1 Checking Contents of Your Package.....................................................................16
3.2 Checking Power Supply Voltage...........................................................................17
3.2.1 Power Supply Requirement .............................................................................17
3.2.2 Fuse Replacement.............................................................................................17
3.3 Determining Place of Installation.........................................................................18
3.3.1 Scanner unit......................................................................................................18
3.3.2 Display unit.......................................................................................................18
3.3.3 Shifting away from obstacles ...........................................................................19
3.4 Installing Scanner Unit.........................................................................................20
3.5 Installing Antenna Unit........................................................................................21
3.6 Installing Display Unit..........................................................................................22
3.7 Connecting Cables .................................................................................................22
3.7.1 Interconnecting cable........................................................................................22
3.7.2 Grounding wire.................................................................................................24
3.7.3 Power supply cable ...........................................................................................25
3.8 Adjustment.............................................................................................................25
3.9 Connecting External Equipment to Display Unit ...............................................26
3.10 Countermeasure for Electromagnetic Interference...........................................26
3.11 When Discarding Your Radar.............................................................................27
CHAPTER 4 FUNCTIONS AND NAMES...............................................28
4.1 Key layout ..............................................................................................................28
4.2 Rear panel ..............................................................................................................29
4.3 Radar screen (Single screen).................................................................................29
4.4 Radar screen (Dual screen) ...................................................................................30
4.5 Radar screen (All PPI screen) ...............................................................................30
4.6 Radar screen (All PPI/PPI screen)........................................................................31
4.7 Navigation screen ..................................................................................................31
CHAPTER 5 OPERATION.......................................................................32
Basic operation of Radar .............................................................................................32
5.1 Turning ON and OFF the radar ...........................................................................32
5.2 Adjusting brilliance of screen and key-backlight.................................................32
5.3 Basic Operations....................................................................................................33
5.3.1 Powering On and Off ........................................................................................33
5.3.2 Transmitting .....................................................................................................33
5.3.3 Adjusting the brilliance of the screen and key-backlight...............................34
5.3.4 Changing the range scale (RANGE UP, RANGE DOWN).............................34
5.3.5 Automatic adjustment (AUTO)........................................................................34
5.3.6 Sensitivity adjustment (GAIN) ........................................................................ 35
5.3.7 Removing the sea clutter (STC) ....................................................................... 35
5.3.8 Removing the rain and snow clutter (FTC)..................................................... 36
5.3.9 Man Over Board (MOB).................................................................................... 36
5.3.10 Acquisition of a target (ACQ)............................................................................... 36
5.3.11 Select target number (TGT NUM)...................................................................... . 36