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Ducimus · 04-01-07, 10:04 AM

Theres two min heights.

Theres Min Height
and theres MinSensorHeight

Whatever MinSensorHeight does i havent been able to figure out, it may acutally be the key in fixing the SD radar to not pick up surface contacts at all. I tried experimenting with it, but didnt get any results that i could tell. So i ended up focusing on the Min Height.

The SD radar min height is super sensitive. If your figuring most ships are XX meters high, so set the SD radar XX+1 higher, it doesnt work that way. My best guess is that theres an incline of an unknown angle that radiates out from the soruce of the SD radar transmission (your sub), with the min height establishing itself on that incline.

Meaning a min high of 6 meters up close could end up being a min height of 50 meters at the very end of the radar's range. But again, this is a guess on my part.

At anyrate, heres how sensitive the min height is:

I ended up using a min height of 8.3.

At 8.4 it stopped picking up ANYTHING, and at 8.3025 i only picked up HALF of the amount of planes present, and the contacts that i did get were intermittant at best.

04-01-07, 10:04 AM	#10
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Theres two min heights. Theres Min Height and theres MinSensorHeight Whatever MinSensorHeight does i havent been able to figure out, it may acutally be the key in fixing the SD radar to not pick up surface contacts at all. I tried experimenting with it, but didnt get any results that i could tell. So i ended up focusing on the Min Height. The SD radar min height is super sensitive. If your figuring most ships are XX meters high, so set the SD radar XX+1 higher, it doesnt work that way. My best guess is that theres an incline of an unknown angle that radiates out from the soruce of the SD radar transmission (your sub), with the min height establishing itself on that incline. Meaning a min high of 6 meters up close could end up being a min height of 50 meters at the very end of the radar's range. But again, this is a guess on my part. At anyrate, heres how sensitive the min height is: I ended up using a min height of 8.3. At 8.4 it stopped picking up ANYTHING, and at 8.3025 i only picked up HALF of the amount of planes present, and the contacts that i did get were intermittant at best.