how good are you at hydrophone?

raduz · 11-27-06, 06:50 AM

as i am working with hydrophone a lot (playing the stock game), i wish to ask if you are able to discriminate the propeler sound of different ships? i am pretty sure that everyone is capable to say whether the contact is a warship or a merchant, a tug boat or a C2... but can you hear the difference between the tanker/liner, C3/coastal merchant and so on, even if the target is more than 30 km from your position? progressively, i learn to ID the ships just by sound and i can tell you, if you do this often, it is worth it! i also count the RPM to determinate the speed of contact.

however, i dont play NYGM/TGW (IIRC, the propeler sounds have been modified there) so i wonder if this would be possible...

11-27-06, 06:50 AM	#1
raduz Engineer Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Slovakia Posts: 205 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	how good are you at hydrophone? as i am working with hydrophone a lot (playing the stock game), i wish to ask if you are able to discriminate the propeler sound of different ships? i am pretty sure that everyone is capable to say whether the contact is a warship or a merchant, a tug boat or a C2... but can you hear the difference between the tanker/liner, C3/coastal merchant and so on, even if the target is more than 30 km from your position? progressively, i learn to ID the ships just by sound and i can tell you, if you do this often, it is worth it! i also count the RPM to determinate the speed of contact. however, i dont play NYGM/TGW (IIRC, the propeler sounds have been modified there) so i wonder if this would be possible...