Can't see reported contacts on radar screen

[Brausepaul]

Hi,

I have a problem with the A scope radar. Very often I get a message that the operator has a radar contact. I go to radar station but I'm always unable to pick something up. After increasing time compression again I usually/always get a visual sighting of a plane, so I'm positive that the first radar contact was correct. So the question is: why am I unable to see the contact on A-scope or PPI?

[Fincuan]

Because both the A-scope and the PPI show information from only the SJ radar, which is a surface radar. There's no scope for the SD radar ingame, you just hear the reports.

[M. Sarsfield]

Also, in rough seas the surface radar is hit or miss. If you focus the beam on the target and watch the A-scope, you'll see the peak bob up and down ans the ship rocks back and forth. It's even worse on the German radar.