I can use Hydrophones

[Patboot]

Quick tip for the 'phones: at periscope depth, set "all stop". Wait for the speed to drop off, then carefully make a 360 sweep.

With 'ambient' up and your sound too, you can hear a ship out to about 40km. Your soundman wont even register one that far out.

[Gezoes]

Mmm... the mouse pointer turns red, but that's it. Can't turn the knob, there's no change in volume, down or up

[Patboot]

On the 'ambient' knob? click the top half to increase, the bottom to decrease.

[papa_smurf]

Nothing beats manually tracking a enemy contact for a while, plotting an intercept course, and then sinking it .

Im also getting good at identifying what type of mercahnt ship im tracking (i.e. if its a large cargo or tanker - I need help!!!!)

[HikeMacD]

Maybe I'm an idiot and didn't get the ambient knob to work but when you manually use the Hydrophone does the stamina of your sonar operator have any affect on what you hear? I was listening last night and couldn't hear squat even with the speakers up and I think the ambient knob turned up. Later after I had moved crew around and had a new sonar guy I could hear great with out the speakers being turned up. MAybe I'm just getting old. :p

[Rykaird]

Originally Posted by HikeMacD

Maybe I'm an idiot and didn't get the ambient knob to work but when you manually use the Hydrophone does the stamina of your sonar operator have any affect on what you hear? I was listening last night and couldn't hear squat even with the speakers up and I think the ambient knob turned up. Later after I had moved crew around and had a new sonar guy I could hear great with out the speakers being turned up. MAybe I'm just getting old. :p

This has stumped me for a long time as well. But here's what I've noticed. The FIRST time I try to raise the volume by clicking on the ambient knob, it only works IF there is a ship that's been detected and you can hear it in the hydrophone. After that, if I don't click it off, the heightened volume usually stays on.

But I can mouse it all day that first time with no change in the volume if there is no ship there.

Don't ask me why, and as always, it may be unique to me and my mods.

[BulSoldier]

WEll i am not using often the hydrophone myself but several patrols ago i installed the first avaibable radar on my VIIB and this night my last patrol ( around 38 000 tons for a month long patrol in nord atlantik ) got a radar contact from my radioman.It seems was far enough and a 2 merchant(large and small).
In the darknest of night i just over the horizon the watch spotted the ship.I went to the radar while aproaching the target to check out is it possible to use radar manually and yes it did.I never knew it was possible.And on the green line shows up a distorbtion (hell i cant write this right way),a small and and a big one.And just down left on the screem there are some numbers, i guess its the distance (i never used that old radar ). In any case was interesting playing with that toy,later just bombed the radar distorbtions and the line was clear again :rotfl: