Did something change with Datalink?

[LanceCriminal86]

In the F-14A, I'm unable to get datalink working in the same way I did with the F-14B in the past.

 

Mission has E-2 set up in the same way as the past. If I try to select Jester > 7] Data Link > 3  the E-2 is not there. On the B all I used to have to do was follow that, select the E-2 or E-3, and I had datalink.

 

Is it a radio option issue? Do I need to have the specific frequency selected before hand? Maybe it's tied to turning easy radio or comms assist on or off?

 

Or is it working as intended and the late As did not have the functionality?

[QuiGon]

The DL has nothing to do with the radio frequencies. The DL has it's own frequency setting that needs to be set by the RIO.

I have no experience with Jester, as I almost exclusively fly the Tomcat as a RIO myself and doing so the DL works just fine as it always did.

Maybe it's the E-2 in your mission that hasn't DL activated? It needs to be set for the E-2 in the mission editor.

[LanceCriminal86]

I checked and the ELPRS setting or whatever it was called and everything was active. I need to go and do more testing but I couldn't seem to get jester to connect to the E-2 via datalink.

[draconus]

can you share the miz?

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

When I added the F-14A to my existing SP missions, D/L worked without any problems, and that's with an E-3 (yes I know it's a DCS-ism but I like its higher cruising altitude since the AWACS radar range seems to be lacking in DCS).
Based on my limited experience so far, I'd doubt anything changed.

[LanceCriminal86]

I'll take another look at it tonight. I may have turned off some of the comms aids, maybe that's why? I just remember before all I had to do was add an AWACS, give it a TACAN, make sure the ELPRS was on and it had an AWACS objective type, and it just worked.

[draconus]

Simple test I made and working for me. Btw: Why TACAN?

F-14A_PG_DL_test.miz

Edited December 11, 2020 by draconus

[LanceCriminal86]

Okay, it's tied to the radio I guess. Once I used the radio menu and requested picture, suddenly I could go back to Datalink and select the E-2 as my source. I didn't recall having to do that in the past, again maybe it is tied to not using some of the ez radio/comms settings.

 

I misspoke about the whole TACAN thing, was thinking about tankers.

[draconus]

No, it just works without any radio calls, just asked Jester to set DL for the E-2D and it's right there in the menu. No easy comms either.

[LanceCriminal86]

And I'm saying that no, it did not work that way for me. I attempted to go straight to datalink and there was no option to select the E2 or E3 in the mission.

 

I used the radio menu, made a call to the E3, and after I was able to go to datalink menu, option 3, then select the E3.

 

I will check what my radio/comms option sets are. I recall unchecking one a while back I think because I wanted to start learning to manage more of the radio stuff but then stopped playing for much of the year.