Radio Contact Reports from BDU appearing only in Captain's Log

[Haraldsson]

My time compression doesn't drop to x1 when I get a radio contact message from BDU. The messages don't appear in the ship's journal or the message box, only the captain's log. When I get other messages from BDU such as enigma codes my time compression does drop per normal function. Right now I'm working the British Coastal Waters campaign. I've also noticed that all the radio contact reports are for latitudes and longitudes quite far from my location (as in 1000s of km). Is this perhaps why the radio contact reports are logged in the captain's log and nowhere else? The only reason I even knew I was getting radio contact reports was from dumb luck of looking at the captain's log, which I find far less useful than the radio message and ship's journal boxes. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris.

[finchOU]

So there is an option to scale the distance for your TC to drop to 1 when a radio contact report is within X distance. Anything outside of that distance will only go to the Captains log (depending on your Realism settings it will or will not appear on the Nav Map I think).

In Game, go to the upper right hand corner UI and it's on of those options...I don't remember what the default is ...but its around 500-600 km i think? The reason this option is there is to filter out those distant Contact reports so that you don't drop your TC all the time for something you might not want to try and intercept. Its a nice feature IMHO.