SD Radar don't work ...

[Cthulhus]

Hello,

I searched here in the forum but I didn't found what I'm looking for...

I just equipped my boat with a new SD Radar (was available on the harbour) and now I can't turn it on...

I read somewhere that the SD Radar will be available later but why I was authorised to make the upgrade ?

Can I turn the radar on ?

Thanks ! :)

[Linavitch]

Assuming you are on the surface, SD Radar is always on.

Go sit off the coast of Japan and you'll get plenty of aircraft contacts.

[Cthulhus]

Hi,
I'm on the surface of course... And in case I'm in the periscop deep, I can rise up the SD radar...

On this pic, you see my problem... An aircraft is spoted and I don't see it on the radar and I can't turn on the radar...

For information, if I start a single mission, This radar work.

http://www.avionic-online.com/_tmp/bug2.jpg

Thank you for your help :)

Xavier

[Fincuan]

That is the console for the SJ-radar in your screenshot

[Cthulhus]

Oh I see ... and it's an upgrade I can do on the harbour right ? Or I should install a patch for make it work ?

[Fincuan]

It's an upgrade, just like the SD-radar. There is no scope for the SD-radar, so when it aquires a contact you only see a notification similar to what you have in the screenshot. If you have both radars and the SJ-scope is clean you know the contact is an aircraft.

[Cthulhus]

thanks for all details !

[Buddahaid]

I'll chime in here as this was a beef for me at first. The stock game mislabeled the radar stations you can man. The red scope you pictured is the PPI scope of the SJ surface radar. The other green one you can command, the A-scope, is also the SJ surface radar set. The PPI (plan position indicator) was an improvement over the A-scope which came first. The A-scope shows a spike over the grass for a contact, and indicates the range. The target bearing was determined by where the radar was aimed, so as the radar turned, there would be nothing shown until it swept over the target. The PPI gives a map type view that combined both range and bearing data.

Now, the SD air search radar in SH4 is AI operated only. You can raise the antennae and that's about it. Contacts are announced and shown on the map. There is no station that the player can man.

Buddahaid