Using Beacons For The First Time

[Friar]

Been thinking about use of beacons, as I was called to wise up for last nights mission, which I enjoyed by the way Fruitbat.

It occurred to me that if you record the transmit letters starting in the sector for 180 to 210 you wont have to work out the reciprocal heading. The letter you get will give you the heading on the chart.

For those of us that are a bit stretched when flying it will be one less thing to calculate. Simples

[fruitbat]

indeed, that will work....

Heres the post i made awhile back about using beacons, was buried in a thread so might be worth reposting here,

Ok, here's how to use the beacons.

first map the keys for next beacon and previous in controls, then add this line to your conf.ini in the [game] section,

ShowMorseAsText=1

I don't think i can explain it much better than this, from the 4.10 readme,

To find the codes for the available carriers, press tab, In this example, if you want the lexington use the next beacon key until beacon ID is AM

Once you've selected the beacon, every 30 secs your pick this up,

In this example the carrier is on a heading between 180-210 degrees from me.

any questions?

oh, i cleaned up the pic from the readme to print out and use, might find it useful, i do!