10th Patrol of U-53 - Radio Contact Intercept

XLjedi · 09-07-07, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Canovaro

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Originally Posted by aaronblood

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Originally Posted by looney

So for a slow contact speed is between 4 and 7?
medium 8 and 10 and for fast anything faster than 10? am I right?

I like...

6 or 7 for slow (I favor 6)
8 or 9 for medium (I favor 8)

...and I've been guessing 16 at fast and haven't had much luck. Any recommendations there would be welcomed.

Fast can only be a tanker or a warship afaik.
A tanker I would guess 10 or 11.
Warships can be anything between 9 and...35? 40? I don't know.

Yeah I've also seen lone cruise ships hummin along at 16, but you're right about the tankers. Probably good guess for the Type IX cap'ns cruisin the Carribean.

When I've seen "task force" as the contact plot I've tried 16 and I haven't had much luck with that guess. Maybe 22? I think part of the problem is the blasted things are turning pretty tight patterns.

VipertheSniper · 09-07-07, 04:52 PM

From what I've seen in convoys that travel fast they mostly do 12 knots, oh yeah anything over 30 (maybe even earlier, like 25) I think is displayed as very fast, only had that on escorts steaming full ahead up until now though. Medium goes from 8-11 knots if I'm not mistaken or more like 7.6-11.5 .

bigboywooly · 09-07-07, 05:35 PM

[ContactSpeeds]
;less than each value means (in this order): stationary, slow, medium and fast speed ; over the last value means very fast speed
Merchant=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts]
Warship=0.1,8,19,35 ;[kts] including uboats
Air=0.1,50,100,150 ;[kts]
Convoy=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts]

So a merchant at slow speed can be anything from 1 to 7 kts
Medium speed 8 to 11 kts and fast 12 to 34 kts
35 and over is very fast - not something you will see from a merchant

looney · 09-08-07, 02:47 AM

I came in contact with a fast mover (1939 still) was a tanker at 12 knots.

For slow I'll reckon 6 or 7 knots depending on angle of approach. Medium I always pick 9. Then again I never lived past 1941, so I don't know bout the faster merchants.

tnx for the numbers am glad my nlind guessing of the speeds werent that far of.

Canovaro · 09-08-07, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

[ContactSpeeds]
;less than each value means (in this order): stationary, slow, medium and fast speed ; over the last value means very fast speed
Merchant=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts]
Warship=0.1,8,19,35 ;[kts] including uboats
Air=0.1,50,100,150 ;[kts]
Convoy=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts]

So a merchant at slow speed can be anything from 1 to 7 kts
Medium speed 8 to 11 kts and fast 12 to 34 kts
35 and over is very fast - not something you will see from a merchant

Thank you very much for clearing that up, BBW

very useful

09-07-07, 05:35 PM	#3
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	[ContactSpeeds] ;less than each value means (in this order): stationary, slow, medium and fast speed ; over the last value means very fast speed Merchant=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts] Warship=0.1,8,19,35 ;[kts] including uboats Air=0.1,50,100,150 ;[kts] Convoy=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts] So a merchant at slow speed can be anything from 1 to 7 kts Medium speed 8 to 11 kts and fast 12 to 34 kts 35 and over is very fast - not something you will see from a merchant __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

09-07-07, 04:52 PM	#2
VipertheSniper Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Austria Posts: 1,074 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	From what I've seen in convoys that travel fast they mostly do 12 knots, oh yeah anything over 30 (maybe even earlier, like 25) I think is displayed as very fast, only had that on escorts steaming full ahead up until now though. Medium goes from 8-11 knots if I'm not mistaken or more like 7.6-11.5 .

09-08-07, 02:47 AM	#4
looney Commodore Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sneek, The Netherlands Posts: 635 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I came in contact with a fast mover (1939 still) was a tanker at 12 knots. For slow I'll reckon 6 or 7 knots depending on angle of approach. Medium I always pick 9. Then again I never lived past 1941, so I don't know bout the faster merchants. tnx for the numbers am glad my nlind guessing of the speeds werent that far of.