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I am an American living abroad, and I just spent a fortune on buying a 1964 Radar used and importing it. I purchased a new cable and power supply from Breakwater in Houston, the rest is used. I just set it all up and it powers up great, but won't see anything outside of 2 miles. I just get little green dots that adjust with the gain. I don't know how many hours the magnetron has on it, but could that be the problem? Another issue is when I bought the new cables, they didn't come with the three EMI's (cable magnets) that I was supposed to install inside the antenna housing. I didn't get the old cable to take off the EMI's so I tried it without those. Would that cause a huge loss of range? Close range is also not very clean, but I do get returns out to about 2 miles. I had a cruise ship at 1.5 miles today, and I could see it well, but would loose site of smaller boats as they passed it at around 2 miles, with no waves. Please help! jschuc1@hotmail.com