There was an error in Mr Richard Trim's paper, ‘Some causes of problems in the observation of standard racon marine beacons when observed by means of standard marine navigation radars’, which was published in the May 1993 issue of the Journal of Navigation. Section 3, paragraph 4 of page 276 should read:‘A third and very important cause of radar received-signal differentiation arises if a widely used form of automatic anti-sea-clutter processing is employed, since part of this processing is to differentiate the radar-received video so as to remove the d.c. term in the sea clutter echoes as part of the Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) processing. When such automatic sea clutter supression facilities are in operation, the gain level applied to the radar receiver video amplifier has an adaptive signal superimposed upon it which, while slow acting, generally follows the shape of the clutter returns on the received signal video, while being largely unaffected by the wanted echo returns such as those from ships, navigation marks, coastlines, etc. This effect may be reduced in the case of the very latest radar designs’.
