Radar choice

[RomaMon]

i am having some issues trying to pick which of the Radars i should install

i can put on

Metox

Borkum

or Naxos once i research it,

which one is best for situations and or the roles they play, cheers

[The cursed Jäger]

Naxos. Good range, can detect small frequencies. It is better than the previous two.

[RomaMon]

cheers

[Ferrous]

Publicado originalmente por Johnny2000:

There must be something wrong here?
I installed the Naxos recently.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2883322293
The range is literally a stone throw.

How's the weather?

[Thahat]

ignore all radar recievers, just put more crew on watch. literally has longer view range than the radar detector. (outside of a fog bank obviously)

[urseus]

It's annoying that you know that radar is rigged and the allies can sense it.

[Ferrous]

Hey doesn't radar give away your position?

[tequilatibbs]

In fog radar basically doesn’t work for you or them. I’m fact in fog you are basically invisible on the surface with electric engines running at 1-3

[Ferrous]

People keep calling these radars so I just kinda assumed they are. turns out they are RWRs. Which makes a lot more sense, you really don't want to broadcast your location to every aircraft in a ten nautical mile radius.

[davidt_man]

Publicado originalmente por Ferrous:

Hey doesn't radar give away your position?

These are radar detectors not radars, they detect the radio waves emitted by Allied aircraft. Radar detectors do not transmit any signal so there is nothing for allied forces to pick up.

[Ferrous]

Publicado originalmente por davidt_man:

Publicado originalmente por Ferrous:

Hey doesn't radar give away your position?

These are radar detectors not radars, they detect the radio waves emitted by Allied aircraft. Radar detectors do not transmit any signal so there is nothing for allied forces to pick up.

yeah a little late to the party, but thanks

[Redmarkus4]

Publicado originalmente por Ferrous:

Publicado originalmente por davidt_man:

These are radar detectors not radars, they detect the radio waves emitted by Allied aircraft. Radar detectors do not transmit any signal so there is nothing for allied forces to pick up.

yeah a little late to the party, but thanks

Must be someone with a job and a life I guess...

[Lipi]

I too don't understand the usefulness of T2 & T3 radars over visual range. At least T1 had better range.

[Konsaki]

Radar detection range, using real life mechanics, would be solely based off timing of the detection equipment.

A radar mile is 12.36us for a there and back if you're emitting a transmitted pulse for the pulse to bounce off the target and return to the point of origin (your dish). If you have a system that refreshes it's listening cycle every 741.6us, you're going to have a 60nmi range to see targets at a maximum.

It obviously gets more complicated than this when you dig into the weeds but an expanding and contracting range doesn't make sense based off that.

What it seems to be simulating is the QUALITY of detection available to you within that maximum, which would be affected by the reflector dish, the feedhorn assy, the cables leading to the receiver group, the noise induced in the receiver group and the processing and display setup condition.

There's also atmospheric effects to take into account, such as solar interference due to sun angle, reflections off waves, rain/hail reflections and other details.

Since this is a radar detector, you also have to factor in the frequency mismatch between the aircraft/ship borne radar's frequency and your detector's frequency.

It acts like an FM radio; the closer the receiver is tuned the exact frequency being emitted, the clearer the picture.

You have to remember that this was all brand spanking new tech at the time, cooking microwaves didn't even exist cause they used this technology after WW2 ended.

So, there's the EWAR battle between the Allies starting to use crude radar and the Axis figuring out that they can detect it. Then the Allies realize they're being detected and do a frequency shift on their radar transmissions (changing the FM station's number). Problem is, the sub's detector is hard coded for a range of frequencies that the Allies are now operating outside of. Now the Axis needs to design new radar detectors to see the new frequency range.

And around and around we go.

[RomaMon]

why this suddenly blew up again after like 2 months is beyond me :P

[Konsaki]

Publicado originalmente por Mon:

why this suddenly blew up again after like 2 months is beyond me :P

Necromancy is a dark art.