Radar and radar arch

[Road King Cole]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

I've heard of some folks using radar to find concentrations of birds swarming above hungry stripers but that may just be some of the higher end units, I don't know. That would be cool.

Yes, that would be cool!

Makes sense...maybe I need to play with mine more...

[RWilson2526]

Other than fog of course one of the best applications I saw radar used was that Tuna trip I went on with a friend of mine....of course in a 20' boat you wont be out 40 miles but we were out there and could here a handful of boats catching tuna on the VHF...my friend called out on the VHF to see if anybody would be so kind to give us a heads up to where they were ( it was a Monday so we thought we had a chance of somebody calling us in) and got nothing but crickets on the other end.....the other guy on our boat said "turn on your radar dumb ***"....bam...they they are!

[Blue_Runner]

Originally Posted by RWilson2526

....of course in a 20' boat you wont be out 40 miles

And why not?

[macojoe]

I see birds on mine!

[garagenc]

I'm with you Blue

I have been 38 miles out in the Atlantic many times with mine.

Also that's how the charter boats around here work. They won't ride unless they see a swam of birds on their radar.

I wish I had one on mine I'd use it to find the birds and run to them.

[Road King Cole]

OK, Its a raytheon pathfinder SL70, similar to this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rayma...ssoriesQ5fGear

[nipper]

How do y'all avoid lobster trap buoys when you are out at night?

[NOTHING ELSE MATTERS]

Originally Posted by Road King Cole

OK, Its a raytheon pathfinder SL70, similar to this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rayma...ssoriesQ5fGear

I had that radar many many moons ago. The light is adjustable. If i remember one of the buttons had the sign of the sun or something like that and i had to keep pressing in order to get the light higher, but it was in a different mode. First i had to go the menu(or something similar) then choose from there, sorry, but it has been more than 10 maybe 15 years ago.
BTW, you can not spot birds with that radar, it was very low quality(even though it was top of the line then) and also is only 2 KW. You need 4 KW or better to spot buoys and birds.