Skybolt
Well-Known Member
- Nov 11, 2014
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- Boat Info
- Reel Nauti
460 EC
- Engines
- Detroit 6v92TA
(Low profile's)
Alison Gears
Westerbeke
12.5kw Genset
Clarification on EBL (my error) - that is the distance and bearing to the object of interest from your boat's current location.
The lines on the MARPA target still show direction and speed.
You can also set up a Guard Zone which will also alarm if something enters the zone.
So yes the VRM/EBL will measure when moving. I was under the impression that the VRM/EBL when used at anchor would alarm if the selected target(s) enter the VRM ring. Is that not the case? I have never tested this so it has been a guess until now.
The Guard Zone will alarm no matter what when a target enters the band, that has been tested many times.
My issue here is until last year I had 4212(s) with this radar and that did not support MARPA and handled the VRM/EBL differently. So the 1243(s) are fairly new to me and haven't really played around to much with the extended features. I will also say this, it does matter what radar head you have for the features to be displayed like in the manual. The manual speaks to the Fantom and it's supported features. My radar head doesn't have the same settings you guys have, even the simplest of settings like appearance color of fore/background colors. Only black or white background only. Al's Marpa settings are not available for me either and to your point it is way too busy with all selected. Garmin almost forces you to upgrade by not supporting current features even when they obviously could like with the fore/background colors.
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