SH3 messages - somebody hear my?

[Yoriyn]

I have a question. During patrol U-boats sends lots of informations to BdU, and BdU to U-boats. It is possible to hear information sending to another U-boot from example BdU. Because sometimes i recieve information like : "U-xxxx raport status." or "2 MERCHANTS SUNK FOR 2700 TONS. 1 MERCHANTS CAPUTRED. AN 3181, U-38". This is a realistic?

[GoldenRivet]

i think it would depend on if the U-boat you overheard was operating on the same frequency band as you.

as far as whether or not this was something that happened in real life... i have no Idea.

[Rwolf]

I think it would be possible, since in the BdU archives there were notes on some subs occasionally not responding themselves but instead messages being relayed by other subs. I would think damaged antennas or poor transmitters may be the cause here.

[Brag]

U-Boars maintained listening watches on certain frequencies. So they would hear messages from U-boats to BDU and BDU to U-boats.

Of course, the allies listened too, once they cracked the Enigma codes, they knew exactly what the U boats were doing.

[T.Von Hogan]

Radio messeges are like loose lips, they sink ships. The only tme i send a contact is on a convoy. Otherwise only God and my crew know where we are.....oh and the enemy as we sink em:yep:

[Sailor Steve]

Because sometimes i recieve information like : "U-xxxx raport status." or "2 MERCHANTS SUNK FOR 2700 TONS. 1 MERCHANTS CAPUTRED. AN 3181, U-38". This is a realistic?
The messages you receive are scripted in; they are messages that were sent in real life and are there only for immersion. There was another thread recently in which a player reported getting a message that his own sub had been sunk.

[irish1958]

Radio messeges are like loose lips, they sink ships. The only tme i send a contact is on a convoy. Otherwise only God and my crew know where we are.....oh and the enemy as we sink em:yep:
Actually, the U-Boats has so call in almost every day. Donitz apparently didn't think the Allies could triangulate the boats.

[Kaptain Hans Wolf]

a lot of the aces didint like reporting in to base regularly for fear of being detected, such as Otto Kretschmer, who had been given the nickname silent otto for his lack of radio messages to bdu. anyway, back to the topic, i myself have never encountered radio messages to that nature, only the boring old, keep up the good work, or, be more agressive, and the occasional(i say occasional) convoy reports. and the messages being sent wer often on the same frequency that the other u-boats were using so they would have sometimes picked up messages from other u-boats intended for bdu./ cheers.