Radar - Monochrome or colour?

[Chris_Stannard]

I fitted a monochrome radar, in the cockpit, as I preferred hand navigation having been trained by Noah. As a radar it works well, if you have a GPS in the system, the Raymarine radar dispaly can diplay the GPS inforamtion in the form of a rolling road display. so if you are heading for a narrow paasae, such as the Looe Channel you can use that very successfully, you can also use it to stay on track between way points for tricky pasages.

SWMBO then started on the what if you have a heart attack routine and eventually, and I great expense, I bought a colour plotter which I installed at the chart table. the two units are interconnected by the hsb2 bus (Raymarine standard). This means I can now display the chart data on the cockpit display and it is not very good for that. I can also display the radar info on the chart table display, and I do not think a colour display adds anything to radar, but it does not take anything away either.

Incidentally, and being a gadget man, I awas able to tell SWMBO that the new carpets wouldd have to wait as it was her fault I bought the plotter.

Last thought, if you can afford it keep to Raymarine kit throughout as it saves a lot of interconnection and incompatibility problems.

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[Twister_Ken]

In the movie...

...The Cruel Sea, I seem to remember the radar was black and white. What's good enough for Jack Hawkins should be good enough for channel cruising.

"It's getting to be be a different kind of war, Number One."

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[BlueSkyNick]

Re: In the movie...

Ah yes, but if there had been an option to have a colour system, I bet he would have taken it. We'll just never know.

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[tom52]

I came to this exact conclusion and fitted the stand alone raymarine monochrome under my sprayhood.
Very disappointed with the screen. It is like looking in a mirror.
At the Raymarine SBS stand they told me it would be fine for cockpit mounting.
When I contacted service centre after installation to ask about improving screen visibility they said only colour screen was suitable for outside daytime viewing !

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[Chris_Stannard]

My monochrome radar dispaly is under the sprayhood and works fine except in when directly in bright sunshine when the radar is usually off any way. the display of boat information can still be seen. It is Raymarine!

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[billmacfarlane]

Colour every time if you're going for the combined radar/plotter. I've probably done nigh on 60 Channel crossings without radar but after the fogs of this summer I wouldn't part with my radar for anything. The tool I used most is MARPA which you only get( I think) with the Raymarine sets. Well worth it.

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[AlanPound]

"...MARPA which you only get( I think) with the Raymarine set"

IIRC you get ARPA with Furuno... only Raymarine call it MARPA (Mini-ARPA)...

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[tcm]

Re: In the movie...

No, pretty sure all the instrumentation was colour, a light mauve to be exact.

Jerrai's sartinly giving ah boys a devil of a taime, sahr. Tea?

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