Latest Garmin® Fantom Series Boosts Its Market-Leading Power for Solid-State Marine Radars
September 08 2020 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
New open-array marine radars offer 250W of
pulse compression power
Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:
GRMN), the world’s leading marine electronics manufacturer1, today
announced the GMR Fantom™ 254/256 open-array radars
delivering 250W of pulse compression power, its highest-powered
solid-state marine radar on the market. The new Fantom 254/256
series uses Garmin’s signature MotionScope™ technology to detect
and highlight moving targets in different colors, helping users
avoid potential collisions, find flocks of birds and track
weather.
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At 250W of pulse compression power, the
Garmin GMR Fantom 254/256 open-array, solid-state marine radar
helps serious boaters and anglers avoid potential collisions, find
flocks of birds, track weather, and more by offering the best
short- and long-range target detection performance and consistency.
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Now with more than double the power of the existing Fantom
124/126, the new Fantom 254/256 solid-state radars yield the best
combined short- and long-range target detection performance for
serious boaters and anglers. New features, including scan-to-scan
averaging and improved MARPA with Automatic Acquisition, provide
improved target precision and more visibility of what lies ahead to
further a user’s situational awareness on the water.
“We know that the demands of offshore navigation require the
most reliable and feature-rich marine radars, which is why we are
excited to offer customers our highest-powered solid-state radar
series on the market,” said Dan Bartel, vice president of global
consumer sales. “The increased power and pulse compression
technology of the new Fantom 254/256 radars gives best-in-class
target detection range and image resolution, making them the ideal
radar solution for anyone desiring to equip their vessel with the
highest end marine tech. New features, like scan-to-scan averaging
and MARPA Automatic Acquisition, optimize ease-of-use to better
explore everything from shorelines to open ocean.”
High-powered Target Detection
At 250W of solid-state power and a target range of 20’ to 96
nautical miles, the Fantom 254/256 outperforms even 25kW magnetron
radars by maximizing energy and range resolution using pulse
compression technology. Narrow horizonal beam width also assists in
creating a high-resolution image and high-sensitivity target
detection capabilities. Equipped with MotionScope technology and
adjustable speed threshold, this series instantly detects moving
targets in real-time—such as other boats, flocks of birds or the
weather ahead—with easy-to-see, colored highlights as targets
approach or retreat from the vessel. True echo trails take boat
speed into account to help captains quickly identify potential
collision threats, or even lead anglers toward flocks of birds as
they search for hot fishing points using the Fantom’s Auto Bird
Gain feature.
Increased Awareness
The new Fantom 254/256 is the first from Garmin to include
scan-to-scan averaging, a feature which reduces the sea
clutter and interferences in the display view for a clear, visual
scope of water ahead. Together with Dynamic Auto Gain, Multi-level
target size, and Dynamic Sea Filter features, scan-to-scan
averaging will strengthen long-range performance and stationary
target detection by eliminating the clutter that might interfere
with positioning and target detection consistency.
Also new to Fantom 254/256, mini-automatic radar plotting aid
(MARPA) Automatic Acquisition lets users simultaneously trigger and
track up to 30 targets with no user prompting on all returns,
boundary zones, guard zones, or MotionScope.
The 4-foot Fantom 254 or 6-foot Fantom 256 open-array are
available now with suggested retail prices of $9,999 and $10,499,
respectively. They are compatible with GPSMAP® 8400/8600, 8000/8200
and 7400/7600 series multifunction displays, and the GPSMAP
10x2/12x2 and GPSMAP 7x2/9x2 series chartplotters. For more
information, visit garmin.com.
Engineered on the inside for life on the outside, Garmin
products have revolutionized life for anglers, sailors, mariners
and boat enthusiasts everywhere. Committed to developing the most
sophisticated marine electronics the industry has ever known,
Garmin believes every day is an opportunity to innovate and a
chance to beat yesterday. For the fifth consecutive year, Garmin
was recently named the Manufacturer of the Year by the National
Marine Electronics Association (NMEA). Other Garmin marine brands
include Fusion® and Navionics®. For more information, visit
Garmin's virtual pressroom at garmin.com/newsroom, contact the
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1 Based on 2019 reported sales.
About Garmin International, Inc. Garmin International,
Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN). Garmin Ltd. is
incorporated in Switzerland, and its principal subsidiaries are
located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Garmin
and GPSMAP are registered trademarks and MotionScope and Fantom are
trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.
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limited to, the risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 28, 2019, filed by Garmin with the
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