[WoS] 4 bearings tutorial - no hydrophone contact

[Waervyn]

Hi!

I remember from a long time ago when I tried the four bearings tutorial, that it worked perfectly.

I recently reinstalled SH5 with the WoS mod, and now wanted to do that tutorial again (note that I don't have realnavigation installed (yet)).

When I do the four bearings tutorial, everything goes well until we have to hunt a ship. The tutorial assumes that my hydrophone picked up on a target, but instead I get the message that there is either no contact or the signal is too faint.

Anyone know what might be wrong?
Is this because I don't have realnavigation installed?

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Waervyn
No, it should not make a difference.
You need to be down around 30 metres to get a decent hydrophone contacts bearing.
Sometimes a faint contact can be a ship moving a long way from you.
Slow moving contacts around 5 knots can also be a problem sometimes.
Quite often you can pickup more than your Sonarman does when you operate it yourself.

Hydrophone Tracker v1.1b Tool For 4 Bearings Method By Gutted

Post #22 4 Bearing Method By Kuikueg + Video Links

Post #49 Lost Your Bearings? > This Might Just Put You Right

Post #57 Using The 4 Bearing True Method By Trevally

Peter

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by Waervyn

Hi!

I remember from a long time ago when I tried the four bearings tutorial, that it worked perfectly.

I recently reinstalled SH5 with the WoS mod, and now wanted to do that tutorial again (note that I don't have realnavigation installed (yet)).

When I do the four bearings tutorial, everything goes well until we have to hunt a ship. The tutorial assumes that my hydrophone picked up on a target, but instead I get the message that there is either no contact or the signal is too faint.

Anyone know what might be wrong?
Is this because I don't have realnavigation installed?

Hi Waervyn

You are the second player to flag this issue

Here is a snip from the tutorial:-

DisplayText|Please erase all marks on your map, leaving your position fix as we will use this.  Click next when you have done so.|0|0|0|0|0
WaitForNext|0|0|0|0|0|0
NextEnabled|0|0|0|0|0|0
DisplayText|I am going to advance time to sync the tutorial.  Please wait.|0|0|0|0|<waittime>
ExecuteAutomationCommand|Set_Time_Compression,512,0,0,0,0,0,0|0|0|0|0|0
ExecuteAutomationCommand|Wait_for_time,03,0,1,,0,0,0|0|0|0|0|0;******************
ExecuteAutomationCommand|Set_Time_Compression,32,0,0,0,0,0,0|0|0|0|0|0
ExecuteAutomationCommand|Wait_for_time,03,10,1,,0,0,0|0|0|0|0|0;******************
ExecuteAutomationCommand|Set_Time_Compression,1,0,0,0,0,0,0|0|0|0|0|0
ExecuteAutomationCommand|Hydrophone_normal_sweep,0,0,0,0,0,0,0|0|0|0|0|0
DisplayText|We will do a hydro check now.|0|0|0|0|5
DisplayText|Ok we have a contact.  Lets start gathering the information. As this target is Long Range and Slow, we will wait 20mins between bearings.  The longer the range and slower the contact, you must increase your wait times.|0|0|0|0|<waittime>

So at this stage the game should:

Inform you that it will sync time (this sets the contact in the correct location for the tutorial)
TC will set to x512
At 03:01 the TC will switch to x32
At 03:10 the TC will switch to x1
A hydro sweep will be carried out

Can you confirm that the above is happening?

Thanks