Online Radar Operators Course
... everything you need to know about operating a small craft radar...
✅ Fully online, start now, beginners welcome
✅ Self paced & interactive
✅ Professional and leisure use
Online Radar Course from MECO will enable you to:
- Learn Radar skills and technical knowledge to exceed the requirements for RYA Yachtmaster.
- Understand the differences between cutting edge 'Broadband' radar and standard 'Pulsed' radar.
- Develop and practice core Yachtmaster radar skills such as systematic observation, plotting, and horizon calculation.
- Utilise tools such as sea & rain clutter, gain, tuning, EBL's, VRMs, MARPA, ARPA, true and relative vectors.
- Build your knowledge from the most basic concepts to the finer technical points to form a thorough understanding.
Each section is broken down into the simplest of stages - you do not need any previous knowledge, or radar skill set
Here's what you will learn
- How to correctly use EBLs & VRMs to ascertain risk of collision and plot positions.
- Refining the picture, FTC, Rain, Sea, IR, Main Bang Suppression, and more.
- Modes of operation and the hardware limitations.
- The limitations of bearing and range discrimination.
- Radar Horizon, how to calculate and take this into account when using the radar.
- How to use your Radar to fix a position if the GNSS fails.
- The limitations of the different technology, broadband is not always best.
- Traditional Radar Plotting and its limitations on small craft
- Automated radar Plotting systems and its limitations on small craft
- How to assess risk of collision and CPA
- How to accurately calculate the aspect of a target, its course and speed.
- A thorough understanding of True vectors and Relative vectors.
- How other electronics can interact with your radar - SARTS, RTE's, & RaCons.
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How to avoid the common radar blunders that lead to radar assisted collision.
Course Content
Introduction
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- Introduction
- Radar Brief Overview (1:06)
- Ranges (pulsed Radar) (6:22)
- Ranges (FMCW) (3:31)
- Range Discrimination (3:52)
- Bearings & Bearing Discrimination (12:22)
- Gain (2:19)
- Sea Clutter (1:37)
- Rain Clutter / FTC (4:08)
- Side Lobe Echos (4:50)
- Radar Horizon & Range (5:59)
- Modes of Operation (5:03)
- SART's (2:44)
- Radar Target Enhancers (3:14)
- Racons (3:37)
- EBL / VRM / Cursor (3:05)
- Radar Plotting Sheet Instructions (2:06)
- P stage 1) Relative motion (Original - Actual) (O-A) (6:30)
- P stage 2) Our Motion (Own Way / O-W) (4:46)
- P stage 3) Their Motion (Way of Another) (W-A) (21:05)
- MARPA / ARPA (5:51)
- Rules (Reference)