Simrad SU90 - Adjusting the Radius of the Search Area

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data.
4SetTxPowertoMaximum.
Result
TheSU90isnowtransmittingacousticpulses("pinging")intothewater.
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Startingnormaloperation,page17
Adjustingtheradiusofthesearcharea
Someechoesareclose,othersarefurtheraway.Itisoftennecessarytoadjusttheradius
ofthesearcharea.OntheSU90,thisisreferredtoasrange.
Context
TheRangesettingdeneshow"far"youwishtheSU90todetectechoes.Inother
words,youspecifythehorizontalorverticaldistancefromthevesseltotheouteredge
ofthesearcharea.
Note
Therangevalueselectedandshownisbydefaultonlyusedbytheactiveview.
Eventhoughyoucanchoosealargerangevalue,thatdoesnotmeanthatyoucandetect
yourtargetsonthesamerange.Therangevalueonlydenestherangethatisshownin
theviews.Actualtargetdetectionwillalwaysdependontheoperationalenvironment,
suchaswatertemperature,salinity,interferenceandlayersinthewatercolumn.
Theselectedrangeisdividedintoidenticaldistances.Theseareshownasdottedcircles.
Theyarereferredtoasrangerings.
Tip
AnadjustablerangeringcanbeaddedtotheHorizontalandV erticalviews.Thisring
isreferredtoasthevariablerangering.
Procedure
1Clickintheviewyouwanttoactivate.
Theactiveviewisidentiedwithathickerborder.UnlessyouusetheApplytoall
function,allchangesyoumakewillonlybeappliedtothisview.
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