Yea it does get a little tiring, every now a then, diving to do a sound check and surfacing empty handed. Your only pick one up about .00001% of the time ( I actually made that number up, but you catch my drift ). I find it realistic. As mentioned above, "it's a big ocean" I go days ( of game time ) without any contacts what so ever, I'm assuming that the way it was. Headphones are a great asset. As for the volume dial. I point my hydrophone to 180, turn speaker volume up a tad, then click the volume know around the 2 o'clock area and you'll hear the difference. I often wondered why you need the revert back to the lower volume setting, but there is a good valid reason, but I can't remember why. I could be wrong but I think you want to do that for close targets. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Like I said there is a reason, but years of Mead has effected my memory ... LOL
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