NAV-RADAR-L1.3
Interpretation and false echoes
NAV-RADAR-M1 · Radar fundamentals · NAV-RADAR-M1-A How marine radar works, how to set it up and how to recognise a misleading picture.
Radar paints what reflects, not what is there. Recognise **shadows**, **indirect**, **side-lobe**, **multiple** and **second-trace** echoes, and the ways a coastline on the screen differs from the coastline on the chart.
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