resolved FM Radio strange behavior

[Ready]

Recently my FM radio is acting up. I have no idea what is the cause. I usually startup and switch to a 30.* freq on the FM. Now when I start up the first dial on the FM is set to 13. When I rotate it, I get a loud tone on the single digit freqs. There is a rotary on the FM, which is by default on MAN. When I switch it to FM, the loud tone dissapears but others are still not able to reach me on FM. Using SRS and Mid and Front radio's function fine.

[Yurgon]

3 hours ago, Ready said:

Now when I start up the first dial on the FM is set to 13.

That's odd, I'm not seeing that in the A-10C II module in 2.9.12, neither in SP nor in MP with SRS connected. The FM radio defaults to 30.000 for me.

AFAICT the two ARC-186s of the old A-10C were identical, just wired to different antennae, so it's correct that the FM radio can dial in the higher freqs, it just can't use them. According to the manual, it should be able to operate from 30.000 to 76.000 MHz, though in the sim I can go as high as 87.975 before the loud radio tone appears at 88.000 MHz and then all the way up to the max dialable freq of 159.975.

So just to confirm, do you get the loud noise/radio tone already at freqs between 30.000 and 76.000 MHz?

3 hours ago, Ready said:

There is a rotary on the FM, which is by default on MAN. When I switch it to FM, the loud tone dissapears but others are still not able to reach me on FM.

That's the emergency frequency preset and sets the radio to a fixed frequency, I believe 40.500 (check your SRS display, it'll show the actual freq). Anyone listening on that freq should be able to communicate with you, regardless of whether they tune it manually or also use the EMER FM preset.

3 hours ago, Ready said:

Using SRS and Mid and Front radio's function fine.

Have you tried to run a DCS repair?

Is there any chance your slot has a borked default freq set in the mission file? Shouldn't be possible through the ME, but maybe someone edited the file manually and introduced an AM freq in the wrong lua table?

Also, I'd try to remove all mods and try with a blank config from Saved Games\DCS just to double check whether it's a local issue in your configuration data files.

[BIGNEWY]

please include a short as possible track replay and your dcs log from the session where it happens we can look for clues. 

thank you 

[Ready]

9 hours ago, Yurgon said:

Also, I'd try to remove all mods and try with a blank config from Saved Games\DCS just to double check whether it's a local issue in your configuration data files.

It was one Taz's A-10C mod that somehow caused it. Very strange since it are only textures. But anyways, I found the issue and it is resolved. Thanks for the tips

9 hours ago, Yurgon said:

That's the emergency frequency preset and sets the radio to a fixed frequency, I believe 40.500 (check your SRS display, it'll show the actual freq). Anyone listening on that freq should be able to communicate with you, regardless of whether they tune it manually or also use the EMER FM preset.

Thanks, never knew!

3 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

please include a short as possible track replay and your dcs log from the session where it happens we can look for clues. 

thank you 

Thanks it is resolved. 

[BIGNEWY]

good to hear thanks for letting us know

[MAXsenna]

1 hour ago, Ready said:

It was one Taz's A-10C mod that somehow caused it. Very strange since it are only textures. But anyways, I found the issue and it is resolved.

Could be because the mod is pre the new radio. If you want an updated one you can try this and make it yourself for all your modules. 

 

 

[Ready]

2 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Could be because the mod is pre the new radio. If you want an updated one you can try this and make it yourself for all your modules. 

 

 

Thanks, yes the new radio could have something to do with it, not sure. I did check out that scripting thing, but could not get my head around it at the time. It was a bit too complicated or I did not have the patience, or both