GWX - Hydrophones and the map

IRONxMortlock · 12-18-06, 08:00 PM

I was tracking a large convoy last night with hydrophones (well I wasn'tbut my sonar man was). The weather turned bad though and I realised I was never going to be able to get close enough to see them so I decided to back away and try another setup once the weather improved. Anyway, there were quite a few escorts roaming around so I figured better safe than sorry and dropped down to 100m while I waited for everyone to pass.

Up to this point the sonar man had been adding hydrophone contacts to the map and keeping them up to date. However as soon as I went deep he stopped doing this. I went to the hydrophone station and manually listened and the convoy was as loud as ever but all contacts were now marked as unknown.

Is it supposed to work this way? Perhaps there's a realistic limitation to hydrophones so that they don't work well at depth (thermacline?) and it's the modelling of this that I'm seeing?:hmm: Or is this a bug?

Thanks,

M
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12-18-06, 08:00 PM	#1
IRONxMortlock Watch Officer Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 339 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	GWX - Hydrophones and the map I was tracking a large convoy last night with hydrophones (well I wasn'tbut my sonar man was). The weather turned bad though and I realised I was never going to be able to get close enough to see them so I decided to back away and try another setup once the weather improved. Anyway, there were quite a few escorts roaming around so I figured better safe than sorry and dropped down to 100m while I waited for everyone to pass. Up to this point the sonar man had been adding hydrophone contacts to the map and keeping them up to date. However as soon as I went deep he stopped doing this. I went to the hydrophone station and manually listened and the convoy was as loud as ever but all contacts were now marked as unknown. Is it supposed to work this way? Perhaps there's a realistic limitation to hydrophones so that they don't work well at depth (thermacline?) and it's the modelling of this that I'm seeing?:hmm: Or is this a bug? Thanks, M ________ perfect tits Webcams Last edited by IRONxMortlock; 08-14-11 at 02:21 PM.