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What's up people how are you doing? I'm just starting a career and I wanted to put a prove (Humble and with basic pieces I have unlocked) around mun to improve the communication of the ships that get into mun's orbit, but the ships when they arrive at mun do not connect with the prove to use it as a relay, they simply say direct connection with the KSC and obviously with a red signal, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, they are totally new to the game

I have equipped it with a communotron 16-S and two HG-5 antenna, batteries and solar panels

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The green line shows the prove connection with Kerbin working fine, the red line shows the ship not connecting with relay

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The HG-5 is a rather puny relay dish with a fairly short range. There’s some complicated calculation to calculate the maximum range when you have more than one antenna on a vessel and the distance two vessels can talk to one another, I suspect you’re just too far away to reach the relay with a low-power antenna on the lander. If you warp around for a few orbits so they get closer, does the relay work then?

Use the Communotron 16 and not the 16S when you can, the 16S doesn’t stack with other transmitters so has a fixed maximum range whereas every other antenna can stack to increase the overall communication range.

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Aso long as you have a connection, I don't really see a problem with it being red. Of course the signal can be blocked by the moon, but you can just have your probes land on that side of the moon that isn't blocked. (But make sure to quicksave regularly for the case you end up being in a suborbital trajectory without a signal.

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On 3/24/2023 at 7:15 PM, Yomar said:

What's up people how are you doing? I'm just starting a career and I wanted to put a prove (Humble and with basic pieces I have unlocked) around mun to improve the communication of the ships that get into mun's orbit, but the ships when they arrive at mun do not connect with the prove to use it as a relay, they simply say direct connection with the KSC and obviously with a red signal, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, they are totally new to the game

I have equipped it with a communotron 16-S and two HG-5 antenna, batteries and solar panels

Kerbal-Space-Program-Screenshot-2023-03-

The green line shows the prove connection with Kerbin working fine, the red line shows the ship not connecting with relay

Kerbal-Space-Program-Screenshot-2023-03-

you find all the informatiion on antennas on the wiki page: https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/CommNet

in particular, an hg-5 antenna can act as a relay for a probe core (no antennas) only at 158 km, according to the table. a bit more since you have 2 hg-2, anyway in that picture the distance should be around 300 km, out of range.

you should see communication as they get closer. early game antennas are poor.

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