Antenna?

[NipplesTheCat]

I just did a clean install and installed gwx 3.0. When I started a new campaign in 1939 and left harbor my sub had the rotating loop antenna up. Is that supposed to be there? How do I make it go down?

[ralphnader23]

I think it stays up. I know there is an entry in the GWX manual about it, somewhere near the beginning.

[Sgt_Raa]

I think it stays up. I know there is an entry in the GWX manual about it, somewhere near the beginning.
i see mine up and sometimes down... idk.... does it have something to do with the radioman or a radar upgrade?....

[NipplesTheCat]

Im not sure whats going on but I dont have any radar in 1939...do I? I think its the direction finding antenna or something like that. Its a loop antenna and it spins around. Im not talking about the hydrophone or whatever it is that is mounted on the deck. I havent played the game in years so I dont remember how to work everything but Im sure that antenna wasnt there before. It stays up and spins even without a radioman or sonar operator.

maybe something new with GWX 3 that im not familiar with?

[frau kaleun]

Im not sure whats going on but I dont have any radar in 1939...do I? I think its the direction finding antenna or something like that. Its a loop antenna and it spins around. Im not talking about the hydrophone or whatever it is that is mounted on the deck. I havent played the game in years so I dont remember how to work everything but Im sure that antenna wasnt there before. It stays up and spins even without a radioman or sonar operator.

maybe something new with GWX 3 that im not familiar with?

If you mean the rotating loop thingy to the right of you on the conning tower when you go to the Bridge view, yeah, that's supposed to be there.

At least I have it on my VIIB, and it's been there from August 1939 on. I'm playing GWX3, don't recall if it was there in stock.

[timmy41]

from gwx manual pg 80
Stock Silent Hunter III simulates the effects of U-boat radar rotation but does not rotate the 3D model of the radar antenna; similarly, some ship contacts represent the effects of using the radio direction finding (RDF) antenna to detect radio transmissions but the RDF does not deploy or rotate. GWX merely rotates the 3D model of the radar antenna on U-boats so equipped, and the RDF loop on all U-boats; the azimuth of the radar and RDF antennas matches the azimuth shown on the azimuth control wheel in the radio room

[Sailor Steve]

In the stock game the antenna is always down. In GWX it is always up. I use Anvart's RFA Up/Down mod, which lets you raise and lower it at will. It always lowers when you dive, so when I surface I go to the bridge and raise it so I can watch it go up and start rotating. :sunny:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=1882

[NipplesTheCat]

Ahhh thanks guys. Just wanted to make sure everything was ok with my install before I spent too many hours in game only to find out I needed to reinstall if you know what I mean. Folks like you make this forum a great place to be! Hats off to you guys and thanks for putting up with the newbie Q's. Ive been out of the loop for a while. Hats off to you and good sailing guys. :salute: