GWX - Hydrophones and the map

hocking · 12-20-06, 12:21 AM

Here is my current experience with the Hydrophones:

I am chasing a slow moving merchant in very heavy seas, fog, and rain. I can't see anything really. Here are the issue I am having with the Hydrophones:

1) I am getting no "Map update" images on my map indicating sound locations of ships close by. The sound-room reports sound contacts to me, but he will not mark the map where these sound contacts are coming from, and at what distance. He just verbally tells me.

2) When I go to the surface, he will continue to report the sound contacts to me. From this, I am able to enter a chase with the ship while keeping somewhat of a fix on its position. When I go to the Hydrophones myself, I see what is happening. The phones are being submerged occassionally when my boat buries into the heavy seas, so I am occasionally able to hear the merchant ahead of me. I do not hear it the entire time I am listening, but I will hear it for enough time to get a location on the merchant. I have not tried this is calm seas yet.

3) Then the most frustrating part of it. When I get in close to the merchant, my sound-room crewman starts reporting "No Sound Contact". It is like he leads me in real close, and then decides to go deaf on me leaving me to fend for myself. Well, fine, I go to the Hydrophones myself to listen for the sound contacts again. Nothing. I can't hear a thing no matter how long I sit there and try to find the merchant again. Then I submerge, and I will pick the merchant up with the Hydrophones completely away from me somewhere since it took so long to find it again. Very frustrating.

Why am I not getting any map updates from my sound-room? Why does the sound-room all of a sudden lose contact with the ship when it is in close? I think the opposite should happen, he should hear the ship better when we are closer to it.

One of my sound-room men are "Radio" Qualified, and the ohter is not. My green bar is nearly half filled I believe.

12-20-06, 12:21 AM	#12
hocking Sparky Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 154 Downloads: 156 Uploads: 0	Here is my current experience with the Hydrophones: I am chasing a slow moving merchant in very heavy seas, fog, and rain. I can't see anything really. Here are the issue I am having with the Hydrophones: 1) I am getting no "Map update" images on my map indicating sound locations of ships close by. The sound-room reports sound contacts to me, but he will not mark the map where these sound contacts are coming from, and at what distance. He just verbally tells me. 2) When I go to the surface, he will continue to report the sound contacts to me. From this, I am able to enter a chase with the ship while keeping somewhat of a fix on its position. When I go to the Hydrophones myself, I see what is happening. The phones are being submerged occassionally when my boat buries into the heavy seas, so I am occasionally able to hear the merchant ahead of me. I do not hear it the entire time I am listening, but I will hear it for enough time to get a location on the merchant. I have not tried this is calm seas yet. 3) Then the most frustrating part of it. When I get in close to the merchant, my sound-room crewman starts reporting "No Sound Contact". It is like he leads me in real close, and then decides to go deaf on me leaving me to fend for myself. Well, fine, I go to the Hydrophones myself to listen for the sound contacts again. Nothing. I can't hear a thing no matter how long I sit there and try to find the merchant again. Then I submerge, and I will pick the merchant up with the Hydrophones completely away from me somewhere since it took so long to find it again. Very frustrating. Why am I not getting any map updates from my sound-room? Why does the sound-room all of a sudden lose contact with the ship when it is in close? I think the opposite should happen, he should hear the ship better when we are closer to it. One of my sound-room men are "Radio" Qualified, and the ohter is not. My green bar is nearly half filled I believe.