Asking Jester to tune to an AM channel does not set AM modulation

[Tomsk]

A fairly recent change to DCS is that preset channels, set in the mission editor, are now set explicitly as being either AM or FM. However Jester does not respect this setting and if you ask him to tune the VHF/UHF radio to an AM preset he does not necessarily set AM mode, meaning it doesn't work.

 

Steps to reproduce

1. Download the attached mission
   
2. Open the mission in the mission editor and click on the parked F-14: note that the VHF/UHF radio preset 1 is set to 245 AM.
   
3. There is a HMMV also in the mission which is transmitting a message continuously on 245 AM.
   
4. Fly the mission
   
5. Connect ground power and air.
   
6. Ask jester to start and confirm the comms check.
   
7. Ask jester to tune the VHF/UHF radio to channel 1.
   
8. Note that you cannot hear the message.
   
9. Ask jester to use AM modulation.
   
10. Note that you can now hear the message.
    

 

This is surely a bug: it should not be necessary to ask for AM modulation explicitly .. the preset is specifically an AM preset, it could only ever work with AM mode. This is extremely confusing for the user: I myself spent more than an hour trying to work out why I wasn't receiving any messages.

Edited January 4, 2020 by Tomsk

[mattag08]

This has been a bug for quite awhile. Jester will swap from AM to FM modulation for no apparent reason. Needs to be fixed HB.