SD Radar not working?

[Wazza]

So I recently got the game and I spent most my time playing on the submarine school. I started a campaign and Set out on a patrol. Non of my radars were working but I continued. Eventually I was sank by a bomber and started a new campaign.
At this point I had realised you need to install the radar in upgrades so I did (an SD one) and now I am on a patrol and it is still not working.When I press the on button on either radar it does nothing at all. Any Ideas as to why?

Extra Info:
Submarine Class: Tambor
Starting Location: Pearl Harbour
Difficulty: Easy
Anything else, let me know.

[Alstack]

Check the forums at SUBSIM.COM for answers. My best guess is the older subs do not have the radar working very well. If I remember correctly, early in the game you only get a very poor surface radar. I may be wrong so SUBSIM forums are the place for the best answers and updates. Good Hunting!

[Wazza]

Originally posted by Alstack:

Check the forums at SUBSIM.COM for answers. My best guess is the older subs do not have the radar working very well. If I remember correctly, early in the game you only get a very poor surface radar. I may be wrong so SUBSIM forums are the place for the best answers and updates. Good Hunting!

I am checking the site out now but if it is a case of it being an older sub then what sub do you recommend staring with? or what year?

[WahooSS238]

During my second patrol (Salmon Class) the SJ radar would constantly turn itself off for no apparent reason. I upgraded to "Improved SJ Radar" but once I started my third patrol neither air nor surface radar would work at all. Will not even turn on. Is this a bug? Anyone else experience this? I am running version 1.3 as I (also) cannot seem to upgrade to v 1.4.

[Nats]

Originally posted by WahooSS238:

During my second patrol (Salmon Class) the SJ radar would constantly turn itself off for no apparent reason. I upgraded to "Improved SJ Radar" but once I started my third patrol neither air nor surface radar would work at all. Will not even turn on. Is this a bug? Anyone else experience this? I am running version 1.3 as I (also) cannot seem to upgrade to v 1.4.

Get the expansion which upgrades the game to v1.5 as well? Might sort your problems?

[Havan_IronOak]

Just getting back into the game and saw that this post didn't really have a definitive answer. Thought I'd resurrect the topic.

As I understand it:
1) SD Radar is for detecting incoming planes while SJ Radar is for detecting surface ships
2) Both SD and SJ Radar sets are active so they can attract trouble as well as warn you about it. Only the German's Metox Radar was passive so it didn't draw attention. I know that in the FOTRSU mod SD Radar defaults to OFF upon surfacing.

Is that correct?

[kostj]

Air-search radar you don't really see working, you just get a report and it shows up on the map at about 18NM if you have map contacts on.