More on RADAR
Yes, in fact you can distinguish the difference between small boats and waves very easily. You can tune out the waves and or rain and leave just solid objects on the screen.
When I first got the radar, I was doing as the manual suggested by running it in clear daylight to get a feel what differ objects really looked like. While sitting at our dock, I scanned all the boats in the mooring field and boats coming and going in the harbor. Then all of a sudden I notice this very bight target closing in fast on me. It looked like a large cruiser on a collision course with me. I got up from the cockpit and charged up on the deck to fend this out of control boat off. To my surprise it was only a guy in racing kayak with his reflective life jacket on in perfect control.
Waves are either blips or symmetrical lines that appear and disappear on the screen randomly. Boats on the other hand show up with every sweep of the antenna. I can put a electronic marker on objects to see, if it is moving and in what direction. Marks are like the guy in the kayak, a real bright dot that doesn’t move.
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