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Sniper297 · 04-10-17, 02:50 PM

Got into another one of those rough seas where the surface search radar keeps cutting out, got irritated enough to try to find a solution again.

This is pathetic, on SARGO the SJ antenna is 50 feet above the keel, but the option to turn it on won't activate at less than 39 feet, and there's no option to extend it. And having it cut out in heavy sees is ludicrous, unless you're in a typhoon you're not going to get a wave to break over the bridge 40 feet high. Add to that the AI (Artificial Idiot) not programmed to automatically turn it back on again, the whole thing is nothing more than useless aggravation.

Hunted through the downloads to see if anyone had come up with a mod, found only an old one for the SD (air search) radar;

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=169

Reverse engineering that one, the main trick was to activate and change the command.cfg key for 158 toggle snorkel, then change the Sensors_sub_US.sim file for obj_extensible 15 and 17 from type = radarantenna to type = snorkel. I tried changing those back to radar and changing the third one, number 23, to snorkel and that doesn't work, the SJ mast doesn't seem to be extensible at all.

Need some genius to figure out either (1) what controls the depth the SJ cuts out so it can be adjusted higher, (2) a way to extend the SJ antenna mast, or (3) some setting that will make the lubber sleeping at the radar console turn the blasted thing back on after each wave has passed.

04-10-17, 02:50 PM	#1
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	SJ radar depth Got into another one of those rough seas where the surface search radar keeps cutting out, got irritated enough to try to find a solution again. This is pathetic, on SARGO the SJ antenna is 50 feet above the keel, but the option to turn it on won't activate at less than 39 feet, and there's no option to extend it. And having it cut out in heavy sees is ludicrous, unless you're in a typhoon you're not going to get a wave to break over the bridge 40 feet high. Add to that the AI (Artificial Idiot) not programmed to automatically turn it back on again, the whole thing is nothing more than useless aggravation. Hunted through the downloads to see if anyone had come up with a mod, found only an old one for the SD (air search) radar; http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=169 Reverse engineering that one, the main trick was to activate and change the command.cfg key for 158 toggle snorkel, then change the Sensors_sub_US.sim file for obj_extensible 15 and 17 from type = radarantenna to type = snorkel. I tried changing those back to radar and changing the third one, number 23, to snorkel and that doesn't work, the SJ mast doesn't seem to be extensible at all. Need some genius to figure out either (1) what controls the depth the SJ cuts out so it can be adjusted higher, (2) a way to extend the SJ antenna mast, or (3) some setting that will make the lubber sleeping at the radar console turn the blasted thing back on after each wave has passed.