Standard Radio Communications. (V 0.15)

Overview

This guide is meant to straighten out confusion, help with new players, and bring a standardized form of radio communications.

The Radio Room

This is an image of the radio room located forward of the main control room. To the left (front to back) is the Hydrophone and the Record player with a clock, rudder indicator, and RPM indicators above that. On the right is the Radio direction finder followed by the telegraph key and the enigma machine with the radio receiver and transmitter above that.

This is the Radio receiver and transmitter
It is very important not to change this unless all ships agree on a channel to use or unless told by another ship to switch to the other channel. The default is obviously 1.

Sending A Message.

This is an image of the telegraph key. It is used for sending messages via morse code on what channel is selected.

Sending a message is simple just type it out with your keyboard. However when you type in a letter (only special characters don’t work e.g. (. , : 😉 etc.) a little animation will play, Wait for the animation to finish or the character will not be sent. Note: the space bar does work just wait a second after hitting it and a space will show up in your message.

NOTE: When referring to a U-boat use the shortened form of names. (Abbreviations are in the next section below).

UNS = U-boat Nine Six
UFFT = U-boat Five Five Two
UTZS = U-boat Three Zero Seven
UFSF = U-boat Five Six Four

Message Formatting
Just sending a message without any formatting or stating who is sending it will cause confusion. This is where message formatting comes in. There are two types:

The General Broadcast
[Sender] [Message] [End]
Used for general broadcast such as: “UNS TO ALL CVY SPOTTED BRG 310 FROM NORTH END” this can also be used when you copy the message.

The Direct Message: Part One.
[Sender] [Recipient] [Message] [End]
This is only be used when directly messaging a ship and a typical Direct Message should follow as such: “UFFT TO UNS WHAT IS YOUR HDG AND LCT END” It would be best to try and wait for a response.

The Direct Message: Part Two.
[Recipient] [Sender] [Message] [End]
This is as to expected for the response of a direct message and should follow as: “UNS TO UFFT OUR LCT IS [Location] AND HDG IS [Heading] END” After sending this you might receive a message along the lines of “WE COPY” and it would be best not to respond to that.

NOTE: DO NOT send a message while another u-boat is sending a message as the two will get entangled.

Abbreviations

These Abbreviations are meant to shorten your messages and help improve the flow of communications. (If you have suggestions please leave it in the comments below).

HDG.:.Heading.
BRG.:.Bearing.
LCT..:.Location.
CVY..:.Convoy.
CV….:.Aircraft Carrier.
DD…:.Destroyer
DC…:.Corvette.
DE…:.Sloop.

Reading Messages

This is a screenshot of the radio log that can be accessed by pressing the “C” key and clicking on the “RADIO LOG” tab at the top. This is where you will be able to read messages you have received, but be aware as someone is needed to be near the radio room for the message to appear in the log.