Beamscanner Posted June 10, 2017 Posted June 10, 2017 IRL pilots are fed pulse audio from their radar warning receiver. This audio is not a synthetic signal generated by the RWR like a launch tone or a "new signal" queue, but a direct translation of the Radars Amplitude variation. The radars Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF), scan pattern and scan duration all act like a form of amplitude modulation. Subsequently, if a radar has a unique PRF, scan time or scan pattern, it's audio will be unique. Prior to automated identification techniques, pilots used the unique audio of various radars to help identify what radar was emitting. I believe DCS could significantly improve its immersion factor by introducing unique audio samples to each radar rather than using the same signal beep to represent every radar. Here are some examples of radar audio: SA-2 and SA-6 simulators active at the same moment Old SA-2 Model (sounds like fast phone ringing) Old SA-2 model (the one that sounds like a fast phone ringing) http://www.burrusspta.org/audio_files/audioswf14a.html New SA-2 model (does not sound like a phone ring anymore) If creating a standard set of radar audio files is not possible, perhaps building all future RWR code similar to the A-10s so that we can modify the LUA and trigger unique audio files ourselves. I have a feeling that at some point ED was interested in doing this, as I see that there is an SA-8 TT audio files in the DCS files.
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