User manual FURUNO FR-1500 MARK-3

[. . . ] Back 15" MULTI-COLOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE SHIPBORNE RADAR AND ARPA FR-1500 MARK-3 SERIES Your Local Agent/Dealer 9-52 Ashihara-cho, Nishinomiya, Japan Telephone : Telefax : 0798-65-2111 0798-65-4200 All rights reserved. Printed in Japan FIRST EDITION : OCT. OME-34500 ( HIMA ) FR-1500 MARK-3 SER. *00080840400* *00080840400* *00080840400* *OME34500U00* *OME34500U00* *OME34500U00* SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS DANGER Before turning on the radar/ARPA, make sure that there is not one near the antenna unit. Serious injury or even death may result if a rotating antenna strikes someone standing nearby. WARNING Radio frequency Radiation Hazard The radar antenna emits electromagnetic radio frequency (RF) energy, which can be harmful, particularly to your eyes. Never look directly into the antenna aperture from a close distance while the radar is in operation or expose yourself to the transmitting antenna at a close distance. SOFTWARE PROGRAM NO. Model FR-1500 MARK-3 FR-1500 MARK-3 ATA ATA RP-17 Software (Prog No. ) 0359152109 0359152110 1859041102 1859042101 0359155103 Date March 00 Dec 01 June 99 June 99 March 00 i For your safety: WARNING Do not open the equipment Hazardous voltage which can cause electrical shock exists inside the equipment. [. . . ] Press the [1], [2] or [3] key to enable or disable a preset function as appropriate. Press the [ENTER/SELECT] key to register your selection and the [MENU] key to close the menu. The picture setup options assignable to any of the function keys are shown in the table below: LABEL BUOY DESCRIPTION Optimum setting for detecting navigation buoys, small vessels and other small surface objects Transoceanic voyage using a range scale of 12 nm or larger LABEL RAIN DESCRIPTION Setting for radar operation in rainy condition OCEAN LONG COAST For coastal navigation using a range of 12 nm or less HARBOR ROUGH SEA Optimum setting for rough weather or heavy rain FLOAT Optimum setting for long range detection using a range scale of 6 nm or larger Optimum setting for short range navigation in a harbor area using a range scale of 1. 5 nm or less Optimum setting for detecting the floating buoys of seine net Function keys default settings are as below: LABEL 3 ECHO AVG Echo Average COAST OCEAN R-SEA FLT BY HBR L RAIN 0. 5 0. 5 1 1 3 0. 5 3 0. 5 4 INT REJ 5 ECHO STRETCH 6 NOISE REJ Noise Rejector OFF OFF OFF OFF ON OFF ON OFF 7 ENHANCE Enhance Video OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF 8 CONTRAST Video Contrast 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 2 OFF OFF OFF ON OFF OFF OFF OFF 9 A/C AUTO A/C Auto Interference rejector Echo Stretch 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 OFF OFF OFF OFF 2 OFF 1 OFF -1. 33- 1. 35 Adjusting Brilliance of Screen Data BRILL 1. 9 requires RP-17 board You can adjust relative brilliance levels of various marks and alphanumeric readouts displayed on the screen as follows: 1. Press the [9] key twice to show the BRILL menu. Select a desired menu item by pressing the corresponding numeric key. As an example, press the [1] key if you want to change the brilliance of target trails. 4. Operate the VRM rotary control to adjust brilliance. Current brilliance level is displayed by the bar-graph beneath each menu item. Press the [ENTER /SELECT] key conclude your selection followed by the [MENU] key to close the menu. -1. 34- 1. 36 Echo Stretch, Contrast, Enhanced Video On long ranges target echoes tend to shrink in the bearing direction, making them difficult to see. On short and medium ranges such as 1. 5, 3 and 6 nm scales, the same size targets get smaller on screen as they approach the own ship. These are due to the inherent property of the radiation pattern of the antenna. To enhance target video, use the echo stretch function. There are two types: echo stretch 1 (ES1) to enlarge in bearing direction for long range detection, and echo stretch 2 (ES2) to enlarge in range direction on 1. 5-6 nm scales. 1. 36. 1 Echo stretch 1. VECTOR PULSE INT REJ STRETCH ECHO AVG CONTRAST N REJ DISP SEL PM SART T/R 1. Press the [F1] key. 2 Press the [4] key twice to display the ECHO SIG menu. 3. Press the [4] key to select echo stretch function desired. A selected level appears at the lower left-hand position. Each selection works as in the figure below. ES OFF ES1 ­ Enlarged in bearing direction Use on range 1. 5-12 nm ES2 ­ Enlarged in range direction. Invalid at P/L S1 and S2 Use on range 1. 5-6 nm Notes: 1) If the 1. 5 nm range is preset for pulselength of S1 or S2, and the 3 nm scale for S2, the echo stretch is not available on those range scales. 2) The echo stretch magnifies not only small target pips but also returns (clutter) from sea surface, rain and radar interference. For this reason make sure these types of interference have been sufficiently suppressed before activating this function. 1. 36. 2 Contrast Contrast is adjustable in 3 levels according to the radar video sampling level. Press [F1], [6] and select the level so that the picture shows up most clearly from the background. -1. 35- 1. 36. 3 Enhanced video The enhanced video function works similar to the echo stretch function, enlarging target echoes in bearing and range direction on 1. 5-6 nm scales. 1. [. . . ] This sentence is transmitted at intervals not exceeding 2 s and is always accompanied by RMB when a destination waypoint is active. RMA and RMB are the recommended minimum data to be provided by a LORAN-C receiver. All data fields must be provided, null fields used only when data is temporarily unavailable. $--RMA, A, llll. ll, a yyyyy. yy, a, x. x, x. x, x. x, x. x, x. x, a, a*hh<CR><LF> Checksum, mandatory for RMA Mode indicator (see note 1 and note 2) Magnetic variation* Course over ground* Speed over ground* Time difference B* Time difference A, µs Longitude, degrees E/W Latitude, degrees N/S *: Not used Status (see note 3): A= data valid, V= blink, cycle or SNR warning NOTE 1: Positioning system Mode indicator: A= Autonomous mode D= Differential mode E= Estimated (dead reckoning) mode M= Manual input mode S= Simulator mode N= Data not valid NOTE 2: The positioning system Mode indicator field supplements the Status field (field No. 1), which shall be set to V = invalid for all values of Mode indicator except for A = Autonomous and D = Differential. The positioning system Mode indicator and Status fields shall not be null field. See paragraph 1. 39 on page 1. 37 for more information. -8. 7- RMB - Recommended minimum navigation information Navigation data from present position to a destination waypoint provided by a LORAN-C, TRANSIT, OMEGA, GPS, DECCA, navigation computer or other integrated navigation system. [. . . ]