What's the point of calling in contacts?

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Originally Posted by svenks

Well occasionally I've had BdU give me a 'well done' for at contact report. However, I'm pretty sure you must have a target visually locked for this to happen. This might easily put you in harm's way

The 'well done' comes when you successfully report a convoy. You know the convoy report was sent when you see it at the bottom of your message log (M key) - something like "Large/medium/small convoy, heading ... speed..."
You can send this kind of message only when several merchants of the convoy get reported by the watch crew - the "schiff gesichtet" message. I usually wait for at least 5-6 ships to be sighted and then send the message, which is followed by a "well done" from BdU after a few hours.