HF ADF ("fakeadf") and accompanying EXE file by Chuck Dome - thanks!
http://home.att.net/~chdome/
Panel.cfg file by Tom Gibson
http://members.aol.com/TGFltsim/
Many thanks to Peter Cokley for the original idea and having Chuck modify
his GPS gauge.
HIGH FREQUENCY AUTOMATIC DIRECTION FINDER: This new gauge by Chuck Dome
simulates the radio navigation aid used by the propliners in areas without
VOR's or NDB's. High frequency radio (HF) was used because it had a very
long range - but was very sensitive to atmospheric conditions. Chuck's
gauge is actually a modification of his simple GPS gauge, made to look
like an ADF gauge. Use the supplied HFADF.EXE program located in your
FS98 GAUGES folder (before starting FS98) to enter the latitude and
longitude of any HF stations needed for the flight. Exit the program and
start FS98. Now click on the little number on the knob of the HF ADF gauge
to change the station. While Chuck's gauge has infinite range (HF radio
did have transatlantic range in good weather conditions); keep in mind
that aircraft normally used more than one HF station on their flight, to
be able to triangulate their position.
Peter Cokley and I have been working on locations of HF stations, but this
information is hard to find. For example, we know that there were HF
stations somewhere on the east coast of North America and at Foynes, near
the Shannon Estuary in Ireland for the Pan Am clippers. We also assume
that there was another station somewhere in the middle of the route (i.e.
Iceland or Greenland?) to allow triangulation across the Atlantic. Peter
has found that there were Adcock Direction Finding [D/F] radio stations (a
predecessor of HF D/F) at San Diego, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Canton Island,
Noumea, Auckland (New Zealand) Brisbane and Sydney (Australia), and on
Lord Howe Island between the two countries (on the Pan American Clipper
route between the US and New Zealand/Australia); these were probably later
converted to HF stations. Pan American almost certainly also had HF
stations on their other Pacific route to the Phillipines, probably at San
Francisco, Guam, Wake Island, and Manila. The first tests of HF radio
appear to be the tests across the Atlantic by the Imperial Airways flying
boat "Cambria", in 1937, and I assume that HF was brought into general use
during WWII.
Any other material that is available about the history and usage of HF D/F
for aircraft navigation would be welcome by both Tom through
http://members.aol.com/TGFltsim/ or Peter through petan@ion.com.au
Installation:
Move the HFADF.GAU and HFADF.EXE files into your FS98 GAUGES folder.
See Chuck's fakeadf.txt file for details about how to program the
locations of the HF radio stations (i.e. using latitude and longitude).
If you wish to update your DC-6 IFR v2 panel, move the PANEL.CFG file into
your DC-6 IFR v2 PANEL folder; overwriting the existing PANEL.CFG file.
This will add the HF ADF to the center post. This panel can then be used
for any long-distance Douglas DC-6/6B/7/7B/7C.
To inactivate the HF ADF gauge, just edit the panel.cfg file in Notepad so
that the hfadf line begins with two slashes -
//gauge50=hfadf, 930, 120, 90 This can then be used for domestic DC's.
You can add this gauge to any other panel using standard methods; see
other web sites on editing panel.cfg files. Basically, you just add the
line gaugenn=hfadf, xxx, yyy, sss to the end of the list in the existing
panel.cfg file (in Notepad).
nn = sequential gauge number
xxx = horizontal gauge coordinate
yyy = vertical gauge coordinate
sss = size
I use trial and error to get the xxx, yyy, and sss numbers; use the other
gauge entries to estimate proper numbers.
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** Now the legal stuff:
ENJOY, AND FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
ZIP ARCHIVE COPYRIGHT 1998 BY TOM GIBSON, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
HFADF.GAU AND HFADF.EXE COPYRIGHT 1998 BY CHUCK DOME. THESE MAY BE FREELY
DISTRIBUTED. PLEASE GIVE PROPER CREDIT TO THE AUTHOR.
THE PANEL.CFG FILE IS THE PROPERTY OF TOM GIBSON, AND CANNOT BE RE-SOLD OR
PACKAGED WITH ANY PRODUCT FOR SALE, WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION
OF THE AUTHORS. THIS IS FREEWARE!!
THIS ENTIRE TEXT FILE MUST BE INCLUDED IN ANY DISTRIBUTION. DO NOT CHANGE
THIS FILE ARCHIVE WITHOUT PERMISSION!
THE AUTHORS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT YOU MIGHT INCUR AS A RESULT
OF USING THESE PRODUCTS. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF USE.
