DCS: Black Shark radio systems modeling

[GGTharos]

No in-game voice comms yet ... might happen in the future though.

[Avimimus]

Thanks for the info, it is very interesting.

 

Now for the real question: If you are out of radio communications when something important (positions being over run etc.) happens: Will the AI start swearing at you when you resume contact?

[GGTharos]

No, they are Britishly polite.

[Avimimus]

No, they are Britishly polite.

 

Oh, good

[EvilBivol-1]

but presumably if you were that keen you could include some audio files with a mission to place in there specifically when you play that mission (if you fancy playing radio journalist)

 

Do the tracks in that folder get played in random order, or sequentially by name ?

If sequentially you could include a whole folder to get the timing right for a mission (Leave the task out of the briefing, play them mission music, mission music, mission music, news broadcast of an attack, radio call of new instructions)

IIRC, it's random (not able to get it working in the current beta to test). You could still put in "war broadcast" audio files in there, but really, that would probably be stretching the purpose of this feature. Sort of like using the ejected pilot as a FAC. :) But anyway, that's the beauty of flexibility - more ways to apply your imagination and talents with the sim.

Actually - what would be good - & I think it's been mentioned before - would be if the triggers could initiate the playing of pre-recorded sound files that would break in over the comms radio. Then you could have the above happen as events happened rather than at specific times.

Imagine your goal is to have a particular ground position survive & there's an enemy column travelling to attack it.

Your side has armour there to defend the site, but the armour is under attaack from enemy artillery.

You're tasked with taking out the artillery so the armour can take out the column.

If you succeed, all is good - mission over, go home.

If you don't get them in time & the position comes under attack this activates a trigger and you get a radio call asking for CAS for the position, at which point your mission changes...

Now for the real question: If you are out of radio communications when something important (positions being over run etc.) happens: Will the AI start swearing at you when you resume contact?

This is what triggers and events are designed for. I don't think we're ready to discuss these in detail yet, but an audio file playback trigger is already implemented.

Are there HF and VHF radio and VOR in real Ka-50?

I don't believe so. RSBN is the Russian equivalent to TACAN, but the Ka-50 is not equipped to receive it.

[Piffer]

VHF is used for civilian ATC. How ka-50 does general (non-combat) flights?

[Weta43]

but an audio file playback trigger is already implemented

 

Great - thanks for the info.

[BBQ]

Thanks for the update! Fascinating stuff--

[Avimimus]

Shouldn't this be stickied and announced on the main website?

 

Thank you for the news and replies on this subject, S!

[EvilBivol-1]

VHF is used for civilian ATC. How ka-50 does general (non-combat) flights?

Looks like you found a translation error Piffer! The radios are actually VHF.

 

Text updated.

[Piffer]

:thumbup:

[kobac]

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... The pilot can verify selection of the correct beacon by configuring the ADF to provide an audio transmission of the beacon’s ID. While in real life the frequencies for each ADF channel are set by ground personnel, the DCS player can edit these in the ADF configuration files outside the simulation.

 

 

Whether it is explained somewhere how to do it? Am interested in adjustments to the radio beacons that are not preset, who are not in the table on the right side.

 

Is there a difference for Black Shark-1 and Black Shark-2?

[Luigi Gorgonzola]

To edit the ADF frequencies simply have a look at Scripts\Aircrafts\Ka-50\Cockpit\ARK\ARK.lua. A list of available beacons can be found in Scripts\World\Radio\Beacons.lua and a list of known airdromes is available in Scripts\World\Airdromes.lua.

 

And all this is written on page 6-73 of the BS 2 Flight Manual, along with an instruction to check the ADF system.

[kobac]

I know that, I read. In addition I have an upgraded version of the BS2 and some files are missing or are in the BS folder. Yet the data differ in these files (ARK.lua, Beacons.lua, Airdromes.lua), and I'm not sure which is the correct way of transferring data (and which data) to a file ark.lua?

I do not believe that this so simple, For example a. Batumi channel 3:

 

[3] = runway_homer_pair(Airdrome[batumi] ,nil,localizedAirdromeName(terrainAirdromes[batumi])),

 

Is this correct?

Edited December 31, 2011 by kobac

[enigma6584]

Great Info! Thanks. Love the depth of this fantastic sim!

[ALDEGA]

To edit the ADF frequencies simply have a look at Scripts\Aircrafts\Ka-50\Cockpit\ARK\ARK.lua. A list of available beacons can be found in Scripts\World\Radio\Beacons.lua and a list of known airdromes is available in Scripts\World\Airdromes.lua.

Is there a way to set the ADF frequencies on a per-mission/campaign basis? ... If not, depending on where your next mission will be, you need to edit the LUA-script if you want to use ADF ...

[Puddlemonkey]

Is there a way to set the ADF frequencies on a per-mission/campaign basis? ... If not, depending on where your next mission will be, you need to edit the LUA-script if you want to use ADF ...

 

Yes, this is quite easy to do. You create your own ARK.lua file and insert it into the mission file.

 

There are some details and an Excel workbook to help you create the ARK.lua here:

 

https://sites.google.com/site/dcsblackshark2/black-shark-systems/ark-22-adf

[KosPilot]

"The R-828 radio is used for communication with combat ground units"

 

It would be so AWESOME to tune in to ground combat units as they fight their way into enemy territory, giving coordinates and maybe requesting CAS.

 

Maybe, in future, the R-828 may be used to direct artillery as well?! :thumbup:

[average_pilot]

But is Radio Mayak restored again in BS2? It's been a looong time since the last broadcasting. I still can't hear anything at 125.675 AM flying over Maykop.

[crazyirish93]

Out of interest is there any other radio stations besides radio maykop ?

[Luigi Gorgonzola]

AFAIK Radio Maykop seized its operations in 1.0.2 due to new audio handling and has yet to become oprational.

[flanker0ne]

I think it would be interesting to implement the radio button on the cyclic, so that if it were used in multiplayer on the same button as push-to-talk in TS3, we get the same effect with the RMI needle.