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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy
From Rockin Robbins:
I don't think we can "turn off" the SD radar. It's "on" as long as we're surfaced, or have the SD Antenna above water level. No command in the game will turn it off.
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Bubble text, mouseover text, whatever, says "turns both radars on and off." If that's not true we should edit the text that displays to reflect.
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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy
There are some variables that should produce different results for the hydrophones, we can monkey around with them to see what results we get. I'm not a fan of using the American sonar/hydrophone like a German. The U.S. had the "ball" type of sonar/hydrophone receivers on the bottom of the hull for a reason.....its not to have the system only work at 40 feet below the surface.
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That's absolutely true that the supersonic sonar worked while on the surface. But just like radio waves, the higher frequency you work with the greater effects reflections, refraction and obstacles have with hearing. Yes, sonar stations were manned while on the surface and contacts were expected to be made. But because of the effects I mentioned, no long range contacts would be made, ever. Ideally, the solution would be to limit sonar detection range while on the surface to a much lesser distance.
Interestingly, pinging also happened from the knuckle sonars under the keel. That means they could ping targets to obtain range, even while surfaced, something the game hasn't let us do in any configurations so far.
All this is rendered meaningless in a boat with SJ radar, as any information from the radar is magnitudes more precise than that obtained from sonar.
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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy
What keyboard layout are you using again? Oh, TMOkeys.
Apparently not the one in the Ultimate beta. If you were, the "T" key will toggle the SD Antenna.
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Well, a edit to TMOKeys is called for but I think I'll toss it and check out the FOTRS Ultimate keyboard instead.
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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy
Straight FOTRS there.
If the "Report Contact" button is linked to "Radio Messages", I'm guessing its an error on FOTRS.
Yes, you can have reports on contacts other than visual. Hydrophone/Sonar can give you a "running" relative bearing of a contact if you ask it to. That would be the "N" key on the Ultimate keyboard layout. 
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If the game doesn't have the ability, then the "report contacts" button on the radar button bar (last one on the right) just needs to be removed as a ridiculous joke. Here I thought the FOTRS guys might have discovered something important. Instead they were only wasting our time!
