RSRD Question

jazman · 02-02-08, 09:22 PM

(Posted also at the Mod thread for RSRD.)

I got a message that there is going to be heavy IJN traffic from Cam Ranh Bay in the vicinity of 0730N 110E. 110E looks like a normal longitude. What is 0730N? It doesn't look like a normal latitude to this rookie navigator.

Laconic · 02-02-08, 10:58 PM

I believe it would be 7˚ 30' N. I've only got one such message yet, and I was close enough to the general vicinity that I could make out the longitude (it was something like 14710E, which I assumed to be 147˚ 10' E...proved correct by the presence of enemy activity). It would seem that Ultra only gives you those messages if you're in the ballpark, so it would be difficult to interpret "1345E" as "13˚ 45' E" would put you off the coast of Africa.

jazman · 02-02-08, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Laconic

I believe it would be 7˚ 30' N. I've only got one such message yet, and I was close enough to the general vicinity that I could make out the longitude (it was something like 14710E, which I assumed to be 147˚ 10' E...proved correct by the presence of enemy activity). It would seem that Ultra only gives you those messages if you're in the ballpark, so it would be difficult to interpret "1345E" as "13˚ 45' E" would put you off the coast of Africa.

Thanks. It's a strange inconsistency.

Laconic · 02-02-08, 11:08 PM

Here we go, took a screenshot of the message. The mark on the map is the location the message said the task force would be. They were a little off-target (obviously they weren't on land), but it was close enough.

Tigrone · 02-03-08, 01:42 PM

" got a message that there is going to be heavy IJN traffic from Cam Ranh Bay in the vicinity of 0730N 110E. 110E looks like a normal longitude. What is 0730N? It doesn't look like a normal latitude to this rookie navigator."

Hightail it at flank. I got the same message and hesitated, worring about distance and fuel, and just missed a huge BB/CC task force.

I just started a new career out of Manila in Searaven and was sent to patrol off Cam Ranh Bay. First thing, I just had to go in and look, since it's 40 years, since I was last there. I snuck in at night on the surface and found nothing, not even a fishing junk. Coming out, I just reached the 50 fathom line, and I'm being run over by fast moving 2-column task force of BBs & CCs. Very hard to pick a target in the dark, and they're moving pretty fast, so I just shot the lot at Kongo, and now they are all running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I'm going elsewhere fast.

I bet this is the same task force your message is about, just a few days earlier.

jazman · 02-03-08, 05:42 PM

Thanks all for the help. The message is a bit garbled, but I now know what to make of the oddball latitude, because I've started another campaign and got something where both pieces aren't standard-looking, but the area makes sense.

BTW, in the previous campaign I missed the juicy IJN force (a shame!), but later I ran across a large slow convoy. I made an end-around and was in perfect position for a daylight submerged attack, and the water was not glassy smooth. There was one subchaser in the front. One! And it was just leading the left column, going straight and docile like a robotic sheep, and I'm coming in across the right column to attack that left column behind the SC. As soon as I was just about in firing position (and I'm only doing very short peeks through the scope), the SC makes a beeline for me. I manage to loose four fish (which missed; this was my "figure out the PK" campaign) and tried to go deep; I was sunk on the way down. Dead is dead, so off to another campaign.

02-02-08, 09:22 PM	#1
jazman Commander Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Crush Depth Posts: 449 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	RSRD Question (Posted also at the Mod thread for RSRD.) I got a message that there is going to be heavy IJN traffic from Cam Ranh Bay in the vicinity of 0730N 110E. 110E looks like a normal longitude. What is 0730N? It doesn't look like a normal latitude to this rookie navigator. __________________ "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." -- Chesterton

02-03-08, 01:42 PM	#5
Tigrone Commander Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Newport Beach, CA Posts: 470 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	Make flank speed for 7-degrees 30-minutes N/110 E " got a message that there is going to be heavy IJN traffic from Cam Ranh Bay in the vicinity of 0730N 110E. 110E looks like a normal longitude. What is 0730N? It doesn't look like a normal latitude to this rookie navigator." Hightail it at flank. I got the same message and hesitated, worring about distance and fuel, and just missed a huge BB/CC task force. I just started a new career out of Manila in Searaven and was sent to patrol off Cam Ranh Bay. First thing, I just had to go in and look, since it's 40 years, since I was last there. I snuck in at night on the surface and found nothing, not even a fishing junk. Coming out, I just reached the 50 fathom line, and I'm being run over by fast moving 2-column task force of BBs & CCs. Very hard to pick a target in the dark, and they're moving pretty fast, so I just shot the lot at Kongo, and now they are all running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I'm going elsewhere fast. I bet this is the same task force your message is about, just a few days earlier. __________________ Commander Hiram Cassedy: "Tigrone has saved the Air Force and is now returning to Iwo Jima with 28 rescued zoomies." B-29 SNUFFY & THE SHIF'LESS SKONKS among them. I've a broom at the mast said he, for the broom is a sign for me, that wherever I go, I sweep the mighty sea.

02-03-08, 05:42 PM	#6
jazman Commander Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Crush Depth Posts: 449 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	Thanks all for the help. The message is a bit garbled, but I now know what to make of the oddball latitude, because I've started another campaign and got something where both pieces aren't standard-looking, but the area makes sense. BTW, in the previous campaign I missed the juicy IJN force (a shame!), but later I ran across a large slow convoy. I made an end-around and was in perfect position for a daylight submerged attack, and the water was not glassy smooth. There was one subchaser in the front. One! And it was just leading the left column, going straight and docile like a robotic sheep, and I'm coming in across the right column to attack that left column behind the SC. As soon as I was just about in firing position (and I'm only doing very short peeks through the scope), the SC makes a beeline for me. I manage to loose four fish (which missed; this was my "figure out the PK" campaign) and tried to go deep; I was sunk on the way down. Dead is dead, so off to another campaign. __________________ "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." -- Chesterton

02-02-08, 10:58 PM	#2
Laconic Soundman Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 142 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 0	I believe it would be 7˚ 30' N. I've only got one such message yet, and I was close enough to the general vicinity that I could make out the longitude (it was something like 14710E, which I assumed to be 147˚ 10' E...proved correct by the presence of enemy activity). It would seem that Ultra only gives you those messages if you're in the ballpark, so it would be difficult to interpret "1345E" as "13˚ 45' E" would put you off the coast of Africa.

02-02-08, 11:08 PM	#4
Laconic Soundman Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 142 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 0	Here we go, took a screenshot of the message. The mark on the map is the location the message said the task force would be. They were a little off-target (obviously they weren't on land), but it was close enough.