Radio Transmiting
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Zipper is correct term.
Pilots glossary voodoo world.
If you Google “zipper the mike” , this glossary pops up with tons, and tons of jargon
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and we do it all them time in MP, no problem
Just hit twice any PTT in rapid succession and your lead knows your rogered the last call -
Worth having that discussion with whoever you are flying with. In a 4 ship that can get confusing quickly.
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thought it was three taps of the VHF package freq, but my info is old.
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“Edit : and I do it al the time in my videos.” … Thanks very much for pointing this out, Lorik! I have enjoyed watching your videos and I feel like I’ve learned a lot from them. I am going to go back to some of them and see if I can identify some instances where you might have “zippered” the mic.
As an example, I decided to look at “Columns in Corridors of Death” on YouTube. Here are some cases where I think you might have done the “zippering” thing.
(Time stamps are from the YouTube video as it’s playing on the YouTube webpage.)Am I correct about any of these examples?
02m 54s : Just after Code says his “FCR is being a b—”.
04m 16s : Just after Code says he’s “got you post-spike” or something like that.
17m 13s : Just after Code says “spike, spike, spike”.
18m 15s: Just after Code says “16,000, climbing to 20”.
Oh, and there’s another thing I’ve wondered about, watching videos of MP flights (such as your vids and Unleashed Code’s): Every few seconds, there is a brief, high-pitched sound. Is that just something that F-16 radios do, when they’re transmitting to (and receiving from) other aircraft? Maybe it’s an audible cue that means “This aircraft is on the air, the radio is working properly”, or “This aircraft is receiving IFF info from friendly aircraft”, or something? It’s a really ubiquitous sound and I’ve always wondered what it is. Maybe it’s just a time signal of some sort.
Thanks!
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Oh, and there’s another thing I’ve wondered about, watching videos of MP flights (such as your vids and Unleashed Code’s): Every few seconds, there is a brief, high-pitched sound
Probably the data link being active, if I were to guess.
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Oh, and there’s another thing I’ve wondered about, watching videos of MP flights (such as your vids and Unleashed Code’s): Every few seconds, there is a brief, high-pitched sound. Is that just something that F-16 radios do, when they’re transmitting to (and receiving from) other aircraft? Maybe it’s an audible cue that means “This aircraft is on the air, the radio is working properly”, or “This aircraft is receiving IFF info from friendly aircraft”, or something? It’s a really ubiquitous sound and I’ve always wondered what it is. Maybe it’s just a time signal of some sort.
Thanks!
You’ll note the OSB #6 label will highlight when the beep happens, and the HSD symbols will update their position. The sound is BMS’ version of the datalink. The datalink that BMS simulates is basically obsolete, but its sent as an audible signal over the radio voice channel every 8 seconds. In BMS there is no modulation, it always sounds the same. And you dont need to set channels correctly for it to work, either. The information that this datalink sends and receives is position and weapons state information for flight members - position of flight members, position of select friendlies on the same net and channel, position of their primary targets, and some basic information about whether or not they have fired missiles at their targets and whether or not their radar is expecting to hit or miss with their best missile in the air.
The more modern link, Link 16, is not simulated in BMS, but that one also does away with the audible beep.
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“Edit : and I do it al the time in my videos.” … Thanks very much for pointing this out, Lorik! I have enjoyed watching your videos and I feel like I’ve learned a lot from them. I am going to go back to some of them and see if I can identify some instances where you might have “zippered” the mic.
As an example, I decided to look at “Columns in Corridors of Death” on YouTube. Here are some cases where I think you might have done the “zippering” thing.
(Time stamps are from the YouTube video as it’s playing on the YouTube webpage.)Am I correct about any of these examples?
02m 54s : Just after Code says his “FCR is being a b—”.
04m 16s : Just after Code says he’s “got you post-spike” or something like that.
17m 13s : Just after Code says “spike, spike, spike”.
18m 15s: Just after Code says “16,000, climbing to 20”.
Oh, and there’s another thing I’ve wondered about, watching videos of MP flights (such as your vids and Unleashed Code’s): Every few seconds, there is a brief, high-pitched sound. Is that just something that F-16 radios do, when they’re transmitting to (and receiving from) other aircraft? Maybe it’s an audible cue that means “This aircraft is on the air, the radio is working properly”, or “This aircraft is receiving IFF info from friendly aircraft”, or something? It’s a really ubiquitous sound and I’ve always wondered what it is. Maybe it’s just a time signal of some sort.
Thanks!
Thank you Mylonite
All correct except number one. Schnidrman and Blu3wolf said everything about it, it’s DL update. IFF In on your throttle’s comms hat, more than 1 sec, and it updates alone if the highlighted OSB text is “CONT” rather than “ASSGN”. (EDIT: in your A/A FCR mode)
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Cool! Thanks Lorik, that’s very helpful
Also good to know what the high-pitched sound means. Now that it’s been explained, it makes sense that the aircraft in a flight would be automatically sending each other data of the type that Blu3wolf described. It’s truly remarkable what the comms and avionics systems in an aircraft like the F-16 can do.
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A long time ago calling in CAS pilots often double clicked the mike as a Roger specially in the Pop after we cleared them hot.