Can't see reported contacts on radar screen

Brausepaul · 04-05-08, 02:48 PM

Hi,

I have a problem with the A scope radar. Very often I get a message that the operator has a radar contact. I go to radar station but I'm always unable to pick something up. After increasing time compression again I usually/always get a visual sighting of a plane, so I'm positive that the first radar contact was correct. So the question is: why am I unable to see the contact on A-scope or PPI?

Fincuan · 04-05-08, 03:20 PM

Because both the A-scope and the PPI show information from only the SJ radar, which is a surface radar. There's no scope for the SD radar ingame, you just hear the reports.

M. Sarsfield · 04-05-08, 03:24 PM

Also, in rough seas the surface radar is hit or miss. If you focus the beam on the target and watch the A-scope, you'll see the peak bob up and down ans the ship rocks back and forth. It's even worse on the German radar.

04-05-08, 02:48 PM	#1
Brausepaul Seaman Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 40 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Can't see reported contacts on radar screen Hi, I have a problem with the A scope radar. Very often I get a message that the operator has a radar contact. I go to radar station but I'm always unable to pick something up. After increasing time compression again I usually/always get a visual sighting of a plane, so I'm positive that the first radar contact was correct. So the question is: why am I unable to see the contact on A-scope or PPI?

04-05-08, 03:24 PM	#3
M. Sarsfield Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tulsa, OK Posts: 1,016 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Also, in rough seas the surface radar is hit or miss. If you focus the beam on the target and watch the A-scope, you'll see the peak bob up and down ans the ship rocks back and forth. It's even worse on the German radar. __________________ MJS USS Batfish Volunteer/Reenactor www.ss310.com www.ussbatfish.com Communism killed over 100M people and all that I got was this lousy signature.* *http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM

04-05-08, 03:20 PM	#2
Fincuan Admiral Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Suomi, sauna, puukko, perkele Posts: 2,346 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	Because both the A-scope and the PPI show information from only the SJ radar, which is a surface radar. There's no scope for the SD radar ingame, you just hear the reports.