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What is Meosar?
Delving into the COSPAS-SARSAT system can quickly have you drowning in alphabet soup. […]
Articles by Allan Tarvid
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Simrad’s new Halo radar solves problems
Some things about radar that used to be considered common knowledge are no longer valid — and some, of course, never were. […]
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Smart battery charging 101
Fishermen learn the easy way or the hard way that how long a trolling motor battery lasts depends on how competently they charge it. I’d go so far as to say that proper charging can be more important than how well the battery is built and how much you paid for it. […]
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Portable power
The last time you were miles from anywhere, turned your boat’s ignition key and heard nothing, what did you do?
No, I mean after you ran through the appropriate part of your vocabulary. […]
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Almost live TV
One of the most-difficult aspects of teaching fishermen and boaters to interpret conventional sonar screens has been getting them to understand how a screen picture is made. […]
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New high-tech night-fishing light
Crossing a bridge over a southern reservoir on a summer night can treat you to a light show that really makes you want to wet a line. When the bite is on and the word is out, the flooded timber can be dotted with enough lights to look like a field of stars. […]
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One size doesn’t fit all
Every now and then, as I poke along through life, I’m hit with small blasts of clarity. Usually, it isn’t over anything new, just a clarification of a fuzzy thought that’s been lurking in the back of my mind. […]
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Power where you need it
Most boats come equipped with fuse blocks bearing just enough fuses to power their factory-installed 12-volt equipment, and you are on your own if you want to add accessories. […]
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Electronics serving in times of need
Search and recovery divers were pretty much on their own back in the early 1980’s; I know because I was one of them. I spent 10 years on the Dallas Fire Department’s dive team and worked from the department’s drag boats before the dive team came to be. Fireman Thad Moore, owner of a SCUBA shop in Dallas, thought we could do better for the families of drowning victims than recovering them with drag hooks. He developed a search and recovery class for SCUBA divers, canvassed the department for volunteers and the Dallas Fire Department’s SCUBA Search & Rescue team was born.
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Battery charging on the run
From the Complaints You Will Never Hear department: “I fished in the wind all day and still have too darned much power left in my trolling motor batteries!” […]
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How to keep your electronics from hurting you
“Garbage in, garbage out” was a watchword with computers long before they were integrated into marine electronics. We rarely enter full-blown garbage into our stuff out on the water but expensive problems can stem from not giving some “minor” details the attention they deserve. […]
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Hot new electronics are coming
Here is a look at a cross section of the new electronics coming our way. […]