Hydrophone problems

medic375th · 06-10-08, 04:37 PM

Picked up a lone warship and hyrophones worked perfectly but later when I spotted a merchant approx 10,000 yds and went to periscope depth (I wanted to try the Dick O'Kane sonar method) hydrophones would not detect it. I thought maybe too far away yet the DD was detected at a further distance. Merchant got to 5500 yds away yet sonar still would not show any contact. No green light, no sound, and no contact bearing line on the map. It was if it was never there. Only showed when I raised periscope. At first I thought maybe it was a freak occurence. But have tried several differt missions and always the same results. Can't detect a thing.

I really want to try manual targeting and the O'Kane method (from watching Rockinrobin's video) seem pretty fool proof. So any suggestions????????

06-10-08, 04:37 PM	#1
medic375th Swabbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Appleton, WI Posts: 10 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Hydrophone problems Picked up a lone warship and hyrophones worked perfectly but later when I spotted a merchant approx 10,000 yds and went to periscope depth (I wanted to try the Dick O'Kane sonar method) hydrophones would not detect it. I thought maybe too far away yet the DD was detected at a further distance. Merchant got to 5500 yds away yet sonar still would not show any contact. No green light, no sound, and no contact bearing line on the map. It was if it was never there. Only showed when I raised periscope. At first I thought maybe it was a freak occurence. But have tried several differt missions and always the same results. Can't detect a thing. I really want to try manual targeting and the O'Kane method (from watching Rockinrobin's video) seem pretty fool proof. So any suggestions????????