FS-3DT Bistatic

The FS-3DT Bistatic has been introduced after careful consultation with industry, to meet the needs of certain vessel types that wish to take advantage of the FS-3DT's superior performance. By mounting the transmitter and receiver in separate modules has allowed the form factor to be significantly reduced, together with a more streamlined styling.

Vessels such as high speed catamarans, fine line motor yachts and sailing vessels can now benefit from the new design with the same levels of performance that are found on the FS-3DT, and use the same Dual Transmission™ technology.

Like the FS-3DT, it provides a 90° field-of-view depth map with a single ping and also includes a narrow beam 1/4 mile range mode. This Dual Transmission™ design can be configured to automatically switch between the standard 90° ping and the long range narrow beam ping.

The system includes a 2U rackmount power module, streamlined transmitter and receiver modules and 33m of interconnection cable. The user interface is FarSounder's SonaSoft™ software which is a Windows XP™ software package that is capable of networking a single sonar head with up to 4 user interface stations.

The FS-3DT bistatic operates at 60 kHz and has an accuracy of about a 1.6 degrees. The range of the system is shown in the table below.