FEW THINGS ANNOY BOATERS MORE than clutter on a radar screen. The last thing a skipper needs while tracking an oncoming boat is a bunch of unwanted signals from land, birds or weather. Clutter can turn a radar screen into an indecipherable mess, making it harder than it should be to maintain situational awareness and be safe out on the water. That's why it's good news to see Garmin incorporating scan averaging as a feature in its new GMR xHD3 series of open-array radars. These are the first magnetron radars from Garmin to have the scan-averaging feature, which helps filter out sea clutter and interference on the display.
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