Is this a new age for radar technology?
"Broadband" Radar - What's it all about?
It's not every day that an author gets a book to publication, and it's not every day that a major technological advance is announced in an area of marine technology. So for both of these things to happen practically simultaneously is unusual, to say the least!
I very much hope that the boating world will find my new book - Essential Boat Radar - useful, and easy to read. Being a boating person myself - diver, sailor etc - I really enjoy finding out how to use sytems like radar, and there is a great emphasis in the book on using it - with the necessary amount on how it works, so that you can understand what you're dealing with.
Now, in the last couple of months, along comes a product launch from the Nacvico group of companies (Simrad, Northstar, Lowrance) which has really got the marine radar world buzzing, and rightly so. It is a genuinely new direction for leisure marine radar (needless to say, it has been around in the military and aviation worlds for a while) and people with an interest in radar - particularly those contemplating buying one - are going to want to know what it is all about, and equip themselves to assess (or at any rate understand) the claims of the manufacturers.
This is what my article is intended to achieve. Fortunately for the user, although quite radical departure in engineering terms, the new technology is not that different in terms of its operation and use - anyone who has learned to use a "traditional" radar will have no problem with "Broadband"; they should just (hopefully) be quite impressed by some of it's features. But for the full story, go ahead and read the article ...
Good boating!
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