Guard zone repeating alarms

[roriol]

Used the guard zone alarm on my E125 with (v16.47) with a RD418HD for the first time this weekend. The radar did an excellent job picking up targets. The problem was that the MFD kept on repeating the alarm over and over--we would acknowledge the alarm each time! About 5 times a minute. It was so annoying we had to turn it off which defeats the purpose.

Q. Is there any way to have the quard zone alarm just warn you only once per target?

Q. Any other suggestions on how to effectively use the guard zone?

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum roriol,

Q1. Is there any way to have the quard zone alarm just warn you only once per target?
A1. Unfortunately, there are presently no configuration settings which may be adjusted to affect this behavior. A feature request has been submitted to consider changes to this feature whereby a target will only generate an alarm if a radar target has crossed the guard zone line (outside to inside) and to include filtering of such targets that hover at the edge of the guard zone such that a single alarm is generated.

Q2. Any other suggestions on how to effectively use the guard zone?
A2. Unfortunately, the only other option is to configure this Alarm OFF.