Radar won't turn on?

[Beermaster68]

Silent Hunter III Radar Issue - Single Player Mission
Type XXI - 1944 Veteran Crew (Normal Realism 29%)

I am playing the Single Player missions, the one that says Type XXI, 1944 - the type XXI has been completed ahead of schedule, ect....

I have a man stationed on both the Hydrophone and Radio/Radar rooms. I press H, and I have access to all options, the 3 boxes for different modes are available.

The Radar man has no such options. He is there, I can see the Radar unit in the station, but the 3 Mode boxes are greyed out. I have tried using it at Periscope depth, and diving deep and still no luck.

What could I be doing wrong?

I am using Stock SH-3 with the 1.4b patch.

Thanks for helping a newbie....

:)

[Bibliophile]

I believe that you need to be on the surface for radar to work.

[Beermaster68]

I finally figured out part of it, I guess if you are close to enemy ships, the Radar operator automatically turns the Radar off to keep from being detected. I think this is what was happening with that particular mission as from the start, there are many ships closeby.

As a test, I loaded Scapa Flow, and you do start out on the surface, and I noticed that the radar works perfectly. As soon as the Radio man spots a ship or gets close to one, the Radar goes off and Hydrophone guy takes over.

At least on the easy settings it's this way.

Thank you Sir,
Beermaster

[Contact]

I believe that you need to be on the surface for radar to work.

You can turn on the radar with deck awashed too, but you will definetely stay half-blinded, unless u will make often turn arounds to see whats going on at your back, or u may use your persicope. Anyway staying awashed for long time is a risky call..

But I often experiencing radar shut downs while on surface but in heavy seas, since when the big wave come and the bridge goes underwater, radar would simply switch off and u have to turn it on again manually.

[Jimbuna]

Never whilst submerged and intermittently in stormy weather.

[Contact]

Cheers Jim :up:

[Jimbuna]

Your welcome mate....long time no see :hmm: