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Fidd · 09-01-23, 12:08 PM

37. The need to reform the Radio compartment.

There are several issues/bugs affecting the radio compartment. The first of these is the effect of latency on morse-mutililation. The latter occurs when dots become dashes, or vice versa, or when pauses between letters are shortened or gaps between dots and dashes are lenghthened. This can make reading morse extremely difficult, even for those who know morse well, and should not be occurring over the short distances we transmit over. There is no actual need for morse signals to be sent and received at exactly the same time, a short pause between it being keyed, and it arriving at other boats could be staggered to allow for error-checking, to mean that the same code is sent and recieved.

The second set of problems in the radio-room concerns the note-book. When an encrypted signal is received, it should be automatically written into the "cypher-text" side of the note-book. Entering those code-groups into the Enigma should then result in the clear-text being written into the clear-text side of the note-book, alongside of the cypher-text on the other side. It should be possible then for the radio-operator to edit the clear-text, for example by context inserting numbers instead of letters, and to add spaces to render the cypher-text as clear language, rather than retaining the 4 letter groups. He should then have the ability to "publish clear-text" which would enter the text into the radio log. When sending a signal using "simple-radio", and the encrypted checkbox is ticked, then the signal received by other radio operators should be a cypher-text. They may have had VHF or HF radios for voice communications, but these should confer a greater risk of being DF'd by surface-craft. (DFing of long-wave transmissions, such as those between BDU and U-boats we easy to DF, but hard to DF with any accuracy). If no-encryption is used, then these massages should be available to the escorts when they are eventually playable. IMPLEMENTED - more or less.

The third problem currently, is the inability for players using real morse to communicate (as occurs on Duyfken games) to enter plain-text of morse transmissions into the radio-log. Again, I suggest there be an edit/publish mechanism so that corrections and clarifications can be made, the text adjusted before being sent to the radio-log. IMPLEMENTED or nearly so.

09-01-23, 12:08 PM	#50
Fidd XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Blighty! Posts: 431 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	37. The need to reform the Radio compartment. There are several issues/bugs affecting the radio compartment. The first of these is the effect of latency on morse-mutililation. The latter occurs when dots become dashes, or vice versa, or when pauses between letters are shortened or gaps between dots and dashes are lenghthened. This can make reading morse extremely difficult, even for those who know morse well, and should not be occurring over the short distances we transmit over. There is no actual need for morse signals to be sent and received at exactly the same time, a short pause between it being keyed, and it arriving at other boats could be staggered to allow for error-checking, to mean that the same code is sent and recieved. The second set of problems in the radio-room concerns the note-book. When an encrypted signal is received, it should be automatically written into the "cypher-text" side of the note-book. Entering those code-groups into the Enigma should then result in the clear-text being written into the clear-text side of the note-book, alongside of the cypher-text on the other side. It should be possible then for the radio-operator to edit the clear-text, for example by context inserting numbers instead of letters, and to add spaces to render the cypher-text as clear language, rather than retaining the 4 letter groups. He should then have the ability to "publish clear-text" which would enter the text into the radio log. When sending a signal using "simple-radio", and the encrypted checkbox is ticked, then the signal received by other radio operators should be a cypher-text. They may have had VHF or HF radios for voice communications, but these should confer a greater risk of being DF'd by surface-craft. (DFing of long-wave transmissions, such as those between BDU and U-boats we easy to DF, but hard to DF with any accuracy). If no-encryption is used, then these massages should be available to the escorts when they are eventually playable. IMPLEMENTED - more or less. The third problem currently, is the inability for players using real morse to communicate (as occurs on Duyfken games) to enter plain-text of morse transmissions into the radio-log. Again, I suggest there be an edit/publish mechanism so that corrections and clarifications can be made, the text adjusted before being sent to the radio-log. IMPLEMENTED or nearly so. Last edited by Fidd; 12-02-23 at 05:08 PM.