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Radar References

Full Pub 1310 chapters, plot sheets, COLREGS, and supporting reference material — all browsable in-page or downloadable for printing.

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Pub 1310 — Radar Navigation Manual (NIMA)

The 6th edition (1994) of the US Government's official radar reference, organized by chapter. Each chapter is browsable as a slide stack with text search; click any page for a full-resolution view.

Cover page of Front matter & TOC

Front matter & TOC

Pub 1310 cover, preface, table of contents

10 pages
Cover page of Chapter 1 · Fundamentals of Radar

Chapter 1 · Fundamentals of Radar

Pulse-modulated radar, components, propagation, the radar beam, target characteristics

28 pages
Cover page of Chapter 2 · Radar Operation

Chapter 2 · Radar Operation

Display modes, stabilization, plotting, controls, bright displays

31 pages
Cover page of Chapter 3 · Collision Avoidance

Chapter 3 · Collision Avoidance

Relative motion, vector triangle, maneuvering board, CPA, course-to-pass

95 pages
Cover page of Chapter 4 · Navigation by Radar

Chapter 4 · Navigation by Radar

Radar fixes, parallel index, harbor approach, contour identification

44 pages
Cover page of Chapter 5 · Vessel Traffic Services

Chapter 5 · Vessel Traffic Services

VTS purpose, US zones, reporting requirements

4 pages
Cover page of Appendices

Appendices

Plotting tables, conversion factors, reference data

17 pages
Cover page of Parallel Index reference card

Parallel Index reference card

One-page quick reference for parallel index navigation

1 page

Plotting tools (printable)

These are the standard maneuvering-board plot sheets used with the Pub 1310 plotting exercises. Print on US Letter or A4 — they're scaled to work with either.

Plot sheet 1 Standard maneuvering-board format Plot sheet 2 Alternate layout Portable scale Pocket-size protractor / scale for quick CPA estimates Chart index Index of NIMA charts referenced in Pub 1310 examples

COLREGS — full Navigation Rules

The full International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (the rule book), 229 pages. The radar-specific subset (Rules 5, 6, 7, 8, 19) gets curated commentary on the COLREGS for radar page (Phase 4); use this for the complete text.

Navigation Rules (PDF) Full COLREGS — for offline reference USCG official copy Online HTML — always the latest version

What's not in this section

The Starpath Radar Trainer ships several Windows compiled-help (.chm) files alongside Pub 1310. Those cover the same fundamentals as the chapter PDFs and only render natively on Windows, so they're omitted here. If you ever need them, they're in the original training-kit zip on your Mac.