3. Read the following text: The Navigational Console

Of most interest to navigators will be the layout of the navigational console.

More than half of the console is comprised of two radar sets and their indicating switch systems, the remainder of the console being a ready-use chart table and chart stowage. Above the chart table and mounted in the console are Decca Navigator*, Marconi echo sounder and Walker's log**.

The radar equipment was manufactured by Kelvin Hughes, the main radar being an adaptation of the Kelvin Hughes type 14/16P, providing relative or true motion representations on a 16-inch display with a built in reflector-plotter***. The other is a 24-inch relative or true motion optically projected bright display.

The main 14/16 P radar equipment is mounted in the center of the console. Immediately above this is mounted a speed and distance recorder driven from a Sal Log**** and zig-zag clock***** which is set to give an indicating signal at so many minutes interval should the radar plotter so desire. The Sal Log, in addition to giving speed and distance run, is also used to run the true motion radar display.

To the right of the 14/16 P radar is the photographic radar plot (PRP for short). As far as the radar is concerned******, the controls for this are identical to the controls of the 14/16 P radar except that they are mounted at the right hand side of the console and not underneath as in the main radar.

Notes:

* Decca Navigator = Decca — радионавигационная система Декка

** Walker's Log — Лаг Уолкера

*** reflector-plotter — блок совмещения радиолокационного изображения местности с картой

**** Sal Log — Лаг Сэла

***** zig-zag clock — часы, указывающие время лежания на зигзаге

****** as far as ... is concerned — что касается

4. Words to be learnt:

layout — план, схема

console — консоль, пульт управления, кронштейн

echo-sounder — эхолот

display — дисплей, воспроизводящее устройство, индикатор

recorder — записывающее устройство, регистратор, самописец

workable — приемлемый, пригодный для работы .

stowage — помещение для хранения

radar plotter — прибор для нанесения на каргу сведений PJIC

ready-use chart table — стол для ведения прокладки

speed and distance recorder — указатель пройденного расстояния и скорости

to mount — устанавливать, монтировать

to install - устанавливать, сооружать

to manufacture - производить, обрабатывать

to construct - сооружать, создавать

EXERCISES

1. What's the Russian for:

layout, console, display, log, radar plotter, watchkeeper, recorder, to install, to mount, design, workable, draught, remainder, to indicate, to use.

2. Translate into Russian:

4. 1) The main radar equipment is mounted in the center of the console.

2. Decca Navigator, Marconi echo sounder and Walker's log are mounted in the console above the chart table.

3. More than half the console is comprised of two radar sets and their indicating switch systems, the remainder of the console being a ready-use chart table.

4. The radar equipment was manufactured by Kelvin Hughes, the main radar being an adaptation of the Kelvin Hughes type 14/16P.