1.OPERATION

2.Press or to choose AUTO or MANU as appropriate.

Automatic gain adjustment

a)Press to open the automatic gain options window.

ROUGH

MODERATE

CALM

Automatic gain options

b)Press or to choose ROUGH, MODERATE or CALM depending on sea conditions.

c)Press to close the window.

Manual gain adjustment

While observing the screen and the gain tuning bar, press or to set the gain. The setting range is 0-100.

3. Press the [MENU/ESC] key to finish.

1.8 Suppressing Sea Clutter

In rough weather, returns from the sea surface, called sea clutter, are received over several miles around own ship and mask nearby targets. This situation can be improved by properly suppressing the sea clutter with the A/C SEA control.

In most cases suppress the clutter until it has disappeared to leeward, but a little is still visible windward. If the setting is too low, targets will be hidden in the clutter, while if it is set too high, both sea clutter and targets will disappear from the display.

Acommon mistake is too over-suppress sea clutter so that it is completely removed. You can see how dangerous this can be by setting up for maximum A/C SEA: A dark zone will be created near the center of the screen, causing a loss of close-in targets. This dark zone is even more dangerous if the sensitivity has not been properly adjusted.

Always leave a little sea clutter visible on the Screen, first adjusting automatically and then fine tuning with the manual control as necessary.

Sea clutter at screen center

1.Press the [GAIN] key consecutively until the display shown below appears.

A/C SEA

AUTO : MODERATE

MANU

 

 

20

 

 

[GAIN] : A/C RAIN MENU

[MENU/ESC] : Exit.

A/C SEA adjustment window

2.Press or to choose AUTO or MANU as appropriate.

Automatic A/C SEA adjustment

a)Press to open the automatic A/C SEA options window.

ROUGH

MODERATE

CALM

A/C SEA options

b)Press or to choose ROUGH, MODERATE or CALM depending on sea conditions.

c)Press to close the window.

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Furuno 1623 manual Suppressing Sea Clutter, Automatic gain adjustment