Aussie Pilot Posted March 2, 2020 Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) I'm having issues communicating with the awacs I put in my mission. While sitting on the carrier and the radio is on I can chat via the radio/F7 and get answers. But after setting IFF, TCN, D/L I can't seem to communicate with them anymore. Even after take off F7 chat option is greyed out and non responding. I have set the awacs radio frequency to the same as the Hornet. Later in the mission they do tell us when enemy planes are around but we can't ask them for any info. I do have it set to invisible in the mission settings. Any idea's? Cheers, Aussie Pilot. Edited March 7, 2020 by Aussie Pilot Cheers, Aussie Pilot.
Harker Posted March 2, 2020 Posted March 2, 2020 If you're tuned into the same frequency, you should be able to communicate. Are you using the default 305 MHz AM? Also are you seeing the datalink info from the AWACS? Are you using the HOTAS Comm buttons to communicate? See if Easy Comms is enabled by accident in Options. It can mess up with the radios. The vCVW-17 is looking for Hornet and Tomcat pilots and RIOs. Join the vCVW-17 Discord. F/A-18C, F-15E, AV-8B, F-16C, JF-17, A-10C/CII, M-2000C, F-14, AH-64D, BS2, UH-1H, P-51D, Sptifire, FC3 - i9-13900K, 64GB @6400MHz RAM, 4090 Strix OC, Samsung 990 Pro
Aussie Pilot Posted March 3, 2020 Author Posted March 3, 2020 Easy comms was on and it seems at this point to have been the problem. I'll be flying tonight and hope to find out. Thank you. Cheers, Aussie Pilot.
Aussie Pilot Posted March 4, 2020 Author Posted March 4, 2020 Turned out to be a faulty F7 key on my keyboard. Cheers, Aussie Pilot.
Harker Posted March 4, 2020 Posted March 4, 2020 Turned out to be a faulty F7 key on my keyboard. Glad you sorted it out. You can also use the mouse to click on the radio options, btw. The vCVW-17 is looking for Hornet and Tomcat pilots and RIOs. Join the vCVW-17 Discord. F/A-18C, F-15E, AV-8B, F-16C, JF-17, A-10C/CII, M-2000C, F-14, AH-64D, BS2, UH-1H, P-51D, Sptifire, FC3 - i9-13900K, 64GB @6400MHz RAM, 4090 Strix OC, Samsung 990 Pro
Aussie Pilot Posted March 5, 2020 Author Posted March 5, 2020 Thanks for the heads up on the mouse click, I may need that because it wasn't the keyboard after all. Swapping it to a new one worked ok for a bit then it started playing up again. So now I'm guessing a corrupt game file or something. Now I'm going to run the repair DCS world and see what happens. Cheers, Aussie Pilot.
Aussie Pilot Posted March 5, 2020 Author Posted March 5, 2020 Arrrr talk about a work out. Finally realised that with TrackIR on it was affecting not only my F7 key but my F9 key also.(Haven't used those keys much until now for comms purposes) I did a search on this forum and found that untrapping those keys in TrackIR settings outside the sim stopped the issue with the keyboard. I know we don't usually have trackIR on while using your keyboard outside your sim but while narrowing down the causes for my issue I found that when trackIR is on it did affect my keyboard when doing a keyboard test online. So it would seem to be solved yet again... I hope :) I'm sharing this for the sake of others who may still be learning their way around DCS. Cheers, Aussie Pilot.
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