hydrophone and thermal layers

[KptLtHansDampf]

First - Salute! to all of you. I am KptLt Hans Dampf, running SH3 1.4 with GWX 3.0, and I'm currently celebrating christmas eve of 1941 during my 22th patrol (appearantly I'm not using SH3 Commander yet, I learned about that program strolling through this great forum and I'm downloading it right now ).

While sitting north of Tanger west of the Strait of Gibraltar in my VII-C, at a depth of 80 metres, listening for the allied christmas gifts to come, a couple of questions come to my mind ...

1) Is there an "ideal" depth for listening with the hydrophone ? I imagine at stormy weather while at periscope depth you should not have the clearest audible range, but does that matter in SH3 with GWX ? If yes, what's your experiences with that circumstance ?

2) I'm used to SH4 where the crew announce the passing of a thermal layer, but obviously the german U-Boote in SH3 doesn't have the equipment to measure the water temperature while submerged. Is that similar to the real life UBoats during the war ? Will there any equipment available to check thermal layers during the SH3/GWX-campaign ?

3) Oh, and about SH3 Commander - will there be any problems if I use it during a running campaign ?


"Gute Jagd", comrades.