[req] Radar bug ?
 

Date: Nov 31 1941
To: all subs engineering officers Pacific fleet
From: SS Wahoo 238
Location: South American Coast.

Wahoo still working up during
transit current location is about
80 nm west of the panamanian
coast course set for pearl this
morning.

Happy new year.
in preparing my ship for arrival
in Pac Fleet a new bugaboo
has turned up. I thought I might
radio ahead and see if any of my
fellow captains had had this bug
before. (likely) after turning up not
too much in a forum search I wonder
if anyone among you is familiar with
this set of circumstances and an
appropriate solution.


I am currently using
Prolonged DC
ROW (various)
RFB
RSRDC
in compatable current versions.

whats happening is this during testdives
we made as we were leaving the cut
in Panama, we discovered that as we
were cruising our Surface Radar would
stay on the ordered constant sweep as
long as we either stayed and watched
it or if we stayed away from it.
but everytime we walked into the radar
shack when it was already running a sweep
for some unknown reason it would switch to
focus and stop turning.

so is it some sort of weird static charge
from saltwater running over my ferric metal
hull, or is it that gravity here near at the equator
is strong enough to pull down a weak switch.

Wahoo arriving Pearl on or about the morning
of Dec, 7 looking forward to seeing you all
at the O club.

Morton