JPGator
Active Member
Adding radar and I’m between Fantom 24 and 424 HD2. The main difference is the usable distance but more importantly the Fantom has motion scope where the HD2 does not. If you have MARPA why do you need motion scope?
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Me too, I used it a lot when crossing the shipping lanes.View attachment 84880 View attachment 84879 Not familiar with Motion Scope but did use MARPA all the time as we traveled in the offshore shipping lanes to avoid local fishing fleets. MARPA is invaluable as it is difficult without navigation aides to see visually if you are going to cross the courses of 500-600 foot freighters. I would tract multiple targets that were often 10-12 miles out. MARPA gives you target headings, their speed, ETA, and how close you will be when you pass them. It alarms you if you pass inside of safety margins you establish. This is particularly helpful in fog and reduced visibility situations.
How do you identify and track one target amongst many like the MARPA does if everything is highlighted automatically as "ARPA"?I know most of you are Garmin fans but Furuno has ARPA. No manual anything it’s automatic. Also has NXT which is their trade name for fantom. I’ve been impressed with my system from day one.
Furuno tracks 100 targets automatically. All you have to do if you want the information it is tracking is touch the target on the screen and it pops up instantly with all that targets information. No multiple button presses or anything simply touch the target and the info is there for up to 100 targets.
You do have the ability to “acquire” a target which then numbers that target and plots circles it on your radar with the heading overlaid. I can send some pics of you’re interested.
Garmin is good equipment and I’m not knocking it at all. Their plotters are intuitive but Furuno radar has always been class leading so it amazes me how much share Garmin is taking. Probably a discussion on another thread but I really believe it’s their marketing and outlets where they sell it.
I think you still have a bit wrong:With Garmin it is a manual process. With Furuno it is automatic. Also I believe Garmin can track 7 manual targets and Furuno Automatically targets 100.
Very similar I agree but I have all of those targets automatically. It’s just allowing me which ones to display.