Radar detector needed.????

Sniper_Fox · 01-15-08, 07:06 PM

you guys take the radar warning for granted.... id love to have that damn thing on my boat... its only 41 and i hate that i only have a hydrophone to find my targets or the rareity of my radioman picking up an intercept of a status report...

hell if i had that radar warning, nothing would be safe from my boat.

dont take equipment for granted... itll save yers and yer crew's life mate!

Sawdust · 01-16-08, 08:04 AM

I just got the radar detector for the first time on my curent patrol. It seems pretty cool, but it turns itself off everytime there is a big wave in the bad weather I'm having! To try to maintain a continuous usage, you have to continually turn it back on.

Paajtor · 01-16-08, 02:34 PM

You're confused, I think....the RWR (Radar Warning Receiver - your radar detector) always works on the surface, and doesn't have to be turned on and off.
I think you mean the radar itself - the active device - which indeed turns itself off as the antennae get below the waves.

*edit* wow, never seen this avatar before..."pooped from posting", at 999 posts:

Avatar · 01-16-08, 02:51 PM

Yes, the Radar Warning device doesnt turn on or off. Just the radar. Only use your radar in bad weather, or maybe at night, because it doesnt pick up targets too far off.
A good way to see if your radar automatically shuts off is when at the navigation(map) station, highlight the radio guy, then click on the radar icon to see that it's highlighted and therefore "on." Dont click the mouse button again and now you can go at high compressions to see if the radar icon goes off, inwhich case you just turn it back on.
I always dive when there are aircraft in the area, detected via the radar warning receiver. Then I wait a few hours to resurface. In this way it is difficult to intercept a convoy, but that's how it was done in real life. (I think) Just wait until night and you can intercept easier.

abclkhan · 01-16-08, 04:10 PM

Radar is unuseful, I dont even install it anymore. It gives your position to enemies more than returns you nice data. Better to dive and use hydrophones to get position course and sepeed. its safer. By the way, hydro has a longer range

But I like the redar warning, I always have it, since being under the keel of a DD after 1943 almost means death. I get contact, dive and identify if it is a plane, warship or merchant by sound, then i go for it or run from it submerged at 4 knt... i never fight planes, its not a fair fight.

Sawdust · 01-16-08, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paajtor

You're confused, I think....the RWR (Radar Warning Receiver - your radar detector) always works on the surface, and doesn't have to be turned on and off.
I think you mean the radar itself - the active device - which indeed turns itself off as the antennae get below the waves.

Oops! Your right, I was confusing the radar with the radar detector.

(I'm still curious to see the active radar in action, so far I haven't picked up any contacts with it.)
As for the radar detector ("Allies buster"? :p), can it be turned on or off? (Not that you'd want to turn it off, really.)

Paajtor · 01-16-08, 06:49 PM

Again, send the radio-man to go take a nap...

01-15-08, 07:06 PM	#1
Sniper_Fox Engineer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North of Malta, shadowing your pretty little C3 Cargo! Posts: 212 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	you guys take the radar warning for granted.... id love to have that damn thing on my boat... its only 41 and i hate that i only have a hydrophone to find my targets or the rareity of my radioman picking up an intercept of a status report... hell if i had that radar warning, nothing would be safe from my boat. dont take equipment for granted... itll save yers and yer crew's life mate! __________________ Im a one U-boat wolfpack. Ive hit the bottom of the Mediterranian at 250 metres in my VIIC and brought that babe back up, and still made it back to La Spezia. Ive sunk more destroyers than I have merchants...youll wish you never sailed into U-87s hunting grounds. When you pull into port, dont lull yourself into a false sense of security, your mines and subnets are just a petty challenge for my crew and I.

01-16-08, 08:04 AM	#2
Sawdust Planesman Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Quadrant DB22 Posts: 198 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I just got the radar detector for the first time on my curent patrol. It seems pretty cool, but it turns itself off everytime there is a big wave in the bad weather I'm having! To try to maintain a continuous usage, you have to continually turn it back on. __________________ .-. --- ..- --. .... ... . .- ... .- .... . .- -..

01-16-08, 02:34 PM	#3
Paajtor The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Dutch mountains Posts: 1,551 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 1	You're confused, I think....the RWR (Radar Warning Receiver - your radar detector) always works on the surface, and doesn't have to be turned on and off. I think you mean the radar itself - the active device - which indeed turns itself off as the antennae get below the waves. edit wow, never seen this avatar before..."pooped from posting", at 999 posts: __________________

01-16-08, 06:49 PM	#7
Paajtor The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Dutch mountains Posts: 1,551 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 1	Again, send the radio-man to go take a nap... __________________

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01-16-08, 02:51 PM	#4
Avatar Commodore Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Way out there Posts: 603 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Yes, the Radar Warning device doesnt turn on or off. Just the radar. Only use your radar in bad weather, or maybe at night, because it doesnt pick up targets too far off. A good way to see if your radar automatically shuts off is when at the navigation(map) station, highlight the radio guy, then click on the radar icon to see that it's highlighted and therefore "on." Dont click the mouse button again and now you can go at high compressions to see if the radar icon goes off, inwhich case you just turn it back on. I always dive when there are aircraft in the area, detected via the radar warning receiver. Then I wait a few hours to resurface. In this way it is difficult to intercept a convoy, but that's how it was done in real life. (I think) Just wait until night and you can intercept easier.

01-16-08, 04:10 PM	#5
abclkhan Loader Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 87 Downloads: 169 Uploads: 0	Radar is unuseful, I dont even install it anymore. It gives your position to enemies more than returns you nice data. Better to dive and use hydrophones to get position course and sepeed. its safer. By the way, hydro has a longer range But I like the redar warning, I always have it, since being under the keel of a DD after 1943 almost means death. I get contact, dive and identify if it is a plane, warship or merchant by sound, then i go for it or run from it submerged at 4 knt... i never fight planes, its not a fair fight.