General Question XPDR beacon

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How do I add an XPDR transmitter to a ship? The James Cook does not have one which makes rendezvous with it somewhat of a pain in the ass; especially when the rendezvous takes place on the night side of a planet.

I've tried going into my scenario file and simply adding the XPDR line there right after nav frequency, but to no avail.






Can the mods please delete this post. I feel like an idiot. I did a search first but didnt see the answer...I should have read a little further...
 
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All you need to do is add two lines to the vessel's config file; e.g.,

Code:
EnableXPDR = TRUE
XPDR = [COLOR="Red"]###[/COLOR]

...where 'nnn' is a delta from 180.0 MHz in 0.05 MHz steps. For example, 466 = 108.0 + (466 * .05) = 108 + 23.3 = 131.3 MHz. If the vessel has a DLL, the DLL itself can specify an XPDR frequency. To see a vessel's XPDR and docking port frequencies in-sim, press CTRL-I when that vessel is in focus.

For details, take a look at page 3 of $ORBITER_HOME\Orbitersdk\doc\3DModel.pdf. :tiphat:
 
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