Radar Issues

[Mraah]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Technically speaking, i think the devs have it about right. That first radar was a real POS, and extremely limited. The germans had bring the boat about in a complete circle to do a radar sweep.

Yeah ... Their values all balance out the fumo29. Changing the SweepPeriod to 1 (it didn't like 0) only gave the sensor 5x more attempts per minute to detect an object ... which made it better .

Looking at the arc coverage, I can see why they set it to 40 instead of 60 ... Looking at the antenna setup of the 29, the dipoles are set far apart with 10 degrees for each, probably causing holes between the lobes ... compared to the fumo30 and 61 it was condensed into a smaller antenna where the lobes can overlap each other.

Should be left alone ... yeah.

Good news though ... setting MinSensorHeight to 0 does eliminate the radar switching off until depth's about 8-9 m ... good news for those that hate rough seas with low visibily.

[commandosolo2009]

Originally Posted by kylania

I tend to let my Hull Integrity find ships for me...

I'm pissing myself outta laughter, good one Chief..

[LukeFF]

Just about everything I've read on the FuMO29 states it had a range of 7500 meters and a coverage of only 20 degrees.

[Mraah]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Just about everything I've read on the FuMO29 states it had a range of 7500 meters and a coverage of only 20 degrees.

Hiya LukeFF,

You're right! +/-10 . I was all off on that one. I didn't realize the antenna was divided into two groups (port/starboard) with 10 degrees each. This makes more sense and along the lines of the 30 and 61 where there coverage was ~15 degrees, albeit rotating.

The range all points to 7500 too, but the source that I read about the coverage (+/-10) also stated the range to be around 14.5km ... most likely under ideal condition or theorectical range, but 7500 being the effective or proven range when out in the field. We all know energy doesn't magically stop at a specific range ... Which reminds me, the SpecialAbility for the radio operator to increase the range is believable, in my book. A good operator can distinguish between ground clutter and actually targets. With the extra range I've detected headon steamers around 9500 m.

I can only plead that the RFB team keeps this ability !

Thanks,

Rob

[karamazovnew]

FUMO? FUMOFFU!!!!



For those who don't know:

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Mraah

The range all points to 7500 too, but the source that I read about the coverage (+/-10) also stated the range to be around 14.5km ... most likely under ideal condition or theorectical range, but 7500 being the effective or proven range when out in the field. We all know energy doesn't magically stop at a specific range ... Which reminds me, the SpecialAbility for the radio operator to increase the range is believable, in my book. A good operator can distinguish between ground clutter and actually targets. With the extra range I've detected headon steamers around 9500 m.

I can only plead that the RFB team keeps this ability !

Yep, we're going to keep that. The other thing that makes that special ability realistic is that, at least for the first generation radar sets, the max range of a given radar set depended in large part on the quality of the vacuum tubes. As such, radar operators were known to try to get better quality radar vacuum tubes while their boat was refitting in port.