The annoying morse code sound

For some reason in a couple of add-on aircraft it is not possible to turn off the morse code sound.

 

I'm not interested in fixing those aircraft as much as I'm interested in

getting RID of the morse code sound COMPLETELY.

 

Is there a way to do this?

 

Thanks for any help

What aircraft? Don't turn on any of the audios that have Morse Code sounds like NAV1, NAV2, ADF, or DME.

dit-dit-dit ..... dah - dah - dah ....... dit-dit-dit

or possibly ,

 

dit-dit-dit ..... dah - dah - dah ..... dit-dit-dit .... dit- dah ..... dah - dah -dit ..... dit

 

with mustard.

Annoying? As a navy communications specialist back in the 60's, '70's and 80's, I had to copy foreign language morse code at 28 words per minute at 98% accuracy,

for hour on hour.

Initially we were taught "vere foster" longhand script writing to write fast enough to get it down on paper. Then along came manual typewriters, followed by electric and finally computers. Hand sent morse code was often very very difficult to copy, machine generated, which sent perfectly formed characters was much easier.

A skill never lost - I still convert written words to morse in my head subconsciously. The only thing that gets me about FSX locators is the repetitiveness, so once I identify the beacon, I turn it off, much to my wife's delight.

 

Bob

 

 

Sent from my tablet thingy!

I had not flown the glide slope in a very long time. Is each identifier unique to each airport/runway and what exactly does it identify the ICAO?

Lovely sound the Morse! worked with it in the 50's in Ethiopia copying the world round, and breaking the codes. up to about 60 WPM..

Those were the days...

My original U.S. Army MOS (don't remember the number) was Intermediate Speed Radio Operator. I attended a 3 month class at Fort Jackson, SC in 1954. Don't mess with a key anymore but think I could still send dit dit dit/dit dit dit dit/dit dit/dah at 80 wpm.

It sounds like (no pun!) you have accidentally tripped the independent DME ident on one of your nav receivers. This feature does not occur on every plane but it is annoying. DME ident is seldom used, but notice that there are DME only navaids in certain places, so they need their own ident that your VOR receivers won't pick up.

 

Try using CNTR+4 QUICKLY (otherwise it may trip on again). Strangely, like a few other commands, this is not in the OPTIONS\CONTROLS\BUTTONS and KEYS menu feature in FSX - not sure about FS9.

 

There are customization choices for key assignments for:

adf #1 or 2 ident ON/OFF

VOR #1 or #2 ident ON/OFF

 

You can assign key strokes to them if you want to.

 

I assume you do have a radio setup that has an audio panel or individual ID buttons on any VOR/ADF control head.

 

Yes, ILS receivers have independent frequencies and IDs for different runways -however, other airports - an appropriate distance away - can have the same frequency (but not necessarily the same ID) on one of their ILSs.

 

You can find the ILS frequency in MAP view, zooming in on the ILS "fan" course figure, click on it and a window will pop up which shows the Runway, frequency and ILS course along with the ILS morse code identifier (four characters instead of three).

 

ICAO is International Civil Aviation organization. It is a standards consensus group on how to standardize all kinds of stuff, from aircraft design, airways structure, nomenclature and tons of other stuff.

 

Hope this helps --

Is each identifier unique to each airport/runway and what exactly does it identify the ICAO?

Each identifier is, indeed, unique. The purpose of that morse code is to identify which station you're listening to. The identifier is shown on the charts for each station, in a little box that contains the 2 or 3 letters spelled out in dots and dashes, along with the actual letters of the ident (OAK for Oakland VOR, along with --- .- -.- for example), frequency, the name of the facility, and TACAN channel, if any. There is sometimes other data, too.

 

In the U.S. it's the FAA ID, not ICAO, most of which were assigned long before the ICAO ID was used in the U.S. I can't speak for how other countries do it, but I suspect it's similar.

For some reason in a couple of add-on aircraft it is not possible to turn off the morse code sound.

 

I'm not interested in fixing those aircraft as much as I'm interested in

getting RID of the morse code sound COMPLETELY.

 

Is there a way to do this?

 

Thanks for any help

 

 

I had a problem with getting that morse code sound even with a Piper Cub that had no nav instruments. So I started FSX with the default Cessna 172 with the navigation system turned OFF, then swithched to the Piper Cub and the morse code sound was gone.

FAA subscribes to ICAO standards, which actually started out as an FAA baseline anyway. Any ICAO compliant country (very few are not) uses the same concepts.

...I'm not interested in fixing those aircraft as much as I'm interested in

getting RID of the morse code sound COMPLETELY.

 

Is there a way to do this?

Not sure, but, you can try!

In FSX/Sound are MRSDAHH.wav, MRSDAHL.wav, MRSDITH.wav, MRSDITL.wav, and MRSSP.wav

I'm pretty sure those can be disabled by changing the extension(wav) to bak.

Alternatively, after backing up the originals, you can copy silence.wav to a remote location, rename it, and replace those files one at a time...Don