FWIW, ISAF requires radar reflectors regardless whether the boat has radar. Even on a steel hull.
Joel On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Frederick G Street via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > That’s one of the more weird things I’ve heard… radars are specifically > designed to try to filter out any signals not their own. > > Other boats might have something like the CARD system aboard to pick up > other vessels’ radar: > > http://nordkyndesign.com/collision-avoidance-at-sea-ais-alarm-project/ > > But those systems haven’t been available new for a decade. The other type > of device that you could have on your vessel to help other radar-equipped > vessels see you better would be an active radar target augmentation system > like the Echo-Max: > > https://www.echomax.co.uk/radar-target-enhancers-x-band-dual-band.html > > Or a Search and Rescue Transponder (SART): > > http://www.offshoreblue.com/safety/sart.php > > > — Fred > > Fred Street -- Minneapolis > S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > > On Feb 2, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Damian Greene via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Here's a question for your collective wisdom: > > We regularly have fog here in Maine, and my normal practice is to hoist a > Davis emergency radar reflector in the shrouds (so I hopefully will not get > run over by a lobster boat). So this year I decided to get the yard to > mount an EchoMax reflector on the mast, and be better prepared. > > However, reviewing my work-list with the yard maintenance manager > yesterday, he asked why I was doing this, as I have radar, and the signal > from my radome would light up on other boats' radar better than a reflector. > > That's something I've never heard before, so I told him I would > investigate and get back on that. Frankly, this does not make a lot of > sense - why would people bother with radar reflectors - but he has more > than 20 years' experience with Hinckley and others. > > I'd like a definitive answer (Fred?) to resolve this. > > Thanks, > > Damian Greene > > ex C&C 34 Ghost > now Sabre 38 Freefall > Bass Harbor, Maine > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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