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Empleando el radar para navegación costera, deberemos tener en cuenta a la hora de tomar demoras y distancias que:Using radar for coastal navigation, when taking bearings and ranges remember that:

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Correct answer: a) Too much gain reduces the radar’s discrimination and may cause wrong readings.

Why it is correct

With too much gain echoes swell and merge. Discrimination is lost and readings go wrong.

Why the others are not

  • b) It weakens echoes.
  • c) Only with rain.
  • d) It works close in, not far.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Gain right, not too much.

Where this question comes from

Try it: Navigation instruments

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