Set frequency at what power?

[sirrah]

What power should I set, in order to make transmissions audible throughout the entire map (Syria)?

Any ideas? 100W? More?

 

[Sedlo]

You likely won't because it's affected by line of sight.  I've put max power in the north and you can't hear it in the south.  

I wish there was an altitude window in the radio transmission GUI, so you could put it up 100,000ft and you could hear it throughout. 

(if you use scripting, you can put the source as up in the air, which works.  Alternatively, without scripting, you can make an aircraft do the transmission up in the sky, extends the range)

[sirrah]

49 minutes ago, Sedlo said:

You likely won't because it's affected by line of sight.  I've put max power in the north and you can't hear it in the south.  

I wish there was an altitude window in the radio transmission GUI, so you could put it up 100,000ft and you could hear it throughout. 

(if you use scripting, you can put the source as up in the air, which works.  Alternatively, without scripting, you can make an aircraft do the transmission up in the sky, extends the range)

Wait what? These transmissions are only heard when in LOS of the transmitting unit?

Oh bummer.. then I'll have to redo all (~30) of the transmissions I just added to my mission 

Do you know if transmissions are also blocked by scenery, or only by terrain?

[Sedlo]

Yeah, it’s true I’m afraid. Not sure about scenery objects, but definitely mountains and things will block it. 

[sirrah]

5 minutes ago, Sedlo said:

Yeah, it’s true I’m afraid. Not sure about scenery objects, but definitely mountains and things will block it. 

Ok, thanks yet again for your help

For now, I've set all units to 100W and I'm gonna just try and see how that works out for my mission. But , reading your experience, I'll probably end up placing a few aircraft in orbit at high altitude.

[BluePhantom]

You do know that forces in the real world deal with LOS all the time. The only radios that work everywhere all the time are satellite waveforms, which entail a whole other level of encryption and access time. 50W would normally be a maximum amount in an airborne unit. Not having perfect radio comma is part of the fog of war. 

[Sedlo]

16 hours ago, BluePhantom said:

You do know that forces in the real world deal with LOS all the time. The only radios that work everywhere all the time are satellite waveforms, which entail a whole other level of encryption and access time. 50W would normally be a maximum amount in an airborne unit. Not having perfect radio comma is part of the fog of war. 

Yep, but when you're trying to tell a story (ie, making a complex mission) if you want the tx heard, you want the tx heard.