OneShot
05-31-2005, 03:26 AM
Original post by Beer on the OW Forum
When a buoy is "Hot" it turns red on the Nav Map. This only lets you know that you have something in range making noise. As it approaches, the noise gets loud enough to where you can hopefully get a bearing from it.
To get a bearing, the buoy needs to be put in directional mode. When putting a buoy in directional mode it takes two of the grams, the OMNI display moves down, and the Bearing display comes up where the Omni display was. If the Noise is loud enough you will see dots on the gram click the dot and a horizontal line should appear.
http://www.retrorelics.net/jim/Boards/grams21.jpg
Click Mark when you have a bearing and it will display on the NAV screen (F5) and the TACCO Screen (F6).
If you have two buoys in contact the bearings should cross and that will give you a fix locating the sub (seen on the NAV screen and TACCO Screen).
With only one bearing on a buoy, note the direction of the bearing shift and and try to place buoys close to the target. The trick is a deep buoy takes 4 minutes of so to deploy, so you want the buoy in front of the target with enough time to catch him.
When a buoy is "Hot" it turns red on the Nav Map. This only lets you know that you have something in range making noise. As it approaches, the noise gets loud enough to where you can hopefully get a bearing from it.
To get a bearing, the buoy needs to be put in directional mode. When putting a buoy in directional mode it takes two of the grams, the OMNI display moves down, and the Bearing display comes up where the Omni display was. If the Noise is loud enough you will see dots on the gram click the dot and a horizontal line should appear.
http://www.retrorelics.net/jim/Boards/grams21.jpg
Click Mark when you have a bearing and it will display on the NAV screen (F5) and the TACCO Screen (F6).
If you have two buoys in contact the bearings should cross and that will give you a fix locating the sub (seen on the NAV screen and TACCO Screen).
With only one bearing on a buoy, note the direction of the bearing shift and and try to place buoys close to the target. The trick is a deep buoy takes 4 minutes of so to deploy, so you want the buoy in front of the target with enough time to catch him.