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Bingo! That's what happened. Looking in ActiveUserPlayerUnits.upc the Balao class boat has the SJRadarAntennaLateGato.

Comparing the Dec 44 problem career SJ placement with a new Dec 44 Balao career, the problem is the Balao class boat was somehow upgraded to the Gato radar.

(I have a mod that allows starting a career every 3 months game time and Dec 44 happens to be a start date in the mod)

I made a SH42 folder to save the problem SH4 folder contents, copied the contents into the folder, and started the new Dec 44 Balao career in the "SH4" folder to compare.

Arrgh! I wonder how that happened. Maybe I'll see if I can edit the section - but with my luck I doubt it. It can't be that easy can it. There may be more sections?

Comparing the 2 ActiveUserPlayerUnits.upc files in:
My Documents\"SH4"\data\cfg\SaveGames\0000000x\
ActiveUserPlayerUnits.upc

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Problem Balao career Dec 44:
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[UserPlayerUnit 1.UnitPartSlot 1.UnitPart.Compartment 1.EquipmentSlot 1]
ID=SurfRadarAntenna
NameDisplayable=Surface Radar Antenna
Type=NULL
AcceptedTypes=NULL
UserCustomizable=Yes
ExternalNodeName3D=R01
ExternalDamageZoneTypeID3D=-1
IDLinkEquipmentLoaded=SJRadarAntennaLateGato

[UserPlayerUnit 1.UnitPartSlot 1.UnitPart.Compartment 1.EquipmentSlot 1.Equipment]
ID=SJRadarAntennaLateGato
NameDisplayable=SJ Radar Antenna
EquipmentInterval=1900-01-01, 1999-12-31
EquipmentSlotType=NULL
ExternalLinkName3D=NSS_LateSJ_Mount
FunctionalType=EqFTypeRadarAntennaSJLate
Hitpoints=100.000000
EfficiencyHumanFactor=1.000000
EfficiencyMechanicFactor=1.000000
Efficiency=1.000000
Damage=0.000000
DamageHitpointsConsumed=0.000000
RemainingRepairTime=0000-00-00 00:00:00
DamageDescription1=NULL,0,0.2,0,1,1,small malfunction,0,0,NULL,0.3,0.4,4.4403
DamageDescription2=NULL,0.2,0.6,0,1,1,Misaligned Axis,0,0,NULL,0.5,0.4,8.86132
DamageDescription3=NULL,0.6,1,0,1,1,fuse blown,0,0,NULL,1,0.2,14.948

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New Balao career Dec 44 with correct Radar:
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[UserPlayerUnit 1.UnitPartSlot 1.UnitPart.Compartment 1.EquipmentSlot 1]
ID=SurfRadarAntenna
NameDisplayable=Surface Radar Antenna
Type=NULL
AcceptedTypes=NULL
UserCustomizable=Yes
ExternalNodeName3D=R01
ExternalDamageZoneTypeID3D=-1
IDLinkEquipmentLoaded=SJRadarAntennaLateBalao

[UserPlayerUnit 1.UnitPartSlot 1.UnitPart.Compartment 1.EquipmentSlot 1.Equipment]
ID=SJRadarAntennaLateBalao
NameDisplayable=SJ Radar Antenna
EquipmentInterval=1900-01-01, 1999-12-31
EquipmentSlotType=NULL
ExternalLinkName3D=NSS_LateSJ_Balao
FunctionalType=EqFTypeRadarAntennaSJLate
Hitpoints=100.000000
EfficiencyHumanFactor=0.927262
EfficiencyMechanicFactor=1.000000
Efficiency=0.927262
Damage=0.000000
DamageHitpointsConsumed=0.000000
RemainingRepairTime=0000-00-00 00:00:00
DamageDescription1=NULL,0,0.2,0,1,1,small malfunction,0,0,NULL,0.3,0.4,4.0753
DamageDescription2=NULL,0.2,0.6,0,1,1,Misaligned Axis,0,0,NULL,0.5,0.4,8.20672
DamageDescription3=NULL,0.6,1,0,1,1,fuse blown,0,0,NULL,1,0.2,17.5552

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Anyway - thanks Peabody

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