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Relay Antenna Rating (Combined): At Least 5.00M???? Okay for the life of me I cannot figure out what On Kerbal, Earth, or Any other planet how to figure this out. I have a mission - This is the Requirement. I seriously don't Care about the Range or Distance... I want to know how to figure out the Combined Rating (CR)!! If the CR is actually the Range or the Distance... Then I can make sense (maybe) of it. But when I'm trying to put a SAT in orbit around the Mun with a Relay Antenna Rating of at least 5.00M... and I slam a RA-M-08 Relay Antenna Rated at 100G, then darn it, it should complete the requirement!!! But I sit in the VAB with Contracts open and I add antenna after antenna after antenna, all relays and it doesn't give me a check mark stating I've met the build requirements... Then I'm lost and Frustrated. 9 hrs of trying different combinations, hours of launches getting them into orbit just right only to find I for some reason Cannot combine enough antennas to meet the requirement. This should not be this difficult... I truly want to learn but I'm not going back to learn trig all over again! Hell I'm 60... and this is supposed to be FUN! Can someone please break it down to something simple like 6 HG-32's will give you a Combined rating of ### I have DSN L3 stations... Because as I understand it... HG-32's have a Rating of 32.0M. If I'm combining them do I divide by .75 or multiply by .75. Would the Combined rating of 2 of these antennas be 48.0M? 32.0M*2*.75 = 48.0M? I'm really surprised there isn't a spreadsheet built for building Comm Relay Satellites, where you put in the type of relay antenna, how many of each, equals combined antenna rating, max range, max distance at 100%, power Required. These science missions aren't asking for SATs to be put in orbit combining Currently launched SATs, because then I'd be set with all the SATs I have in Orbit... Here is another example. I have a simple probe. - I have 4 RA-002 Relay Antenna - when I check the RC-12 Remote guidance Unit - it states my CommNet Relays: 4, Rating 5.66G. To me, that says I've met my requirement for the 5.0M combined Rating. Am I wrong????? -
After stock Antenna ranges seems too easy, i set the Range factor in current game settings to a lower setting (0.20). But now, all the new Ranges are unknown, it's rolling dices to find the right antenna amount and type and i only can "feel", if i have not enough antenna power, when the probe get lost over distance. I dislike to put just 4 x 88-88 on every vessel to max all out. Thats boring. Actually i only can use an user made google sheet to calculate from kerbin to other planets. Would be nice to have a mod tool, that show me the real range of the vessel depending on Antenna Rating and actual DNS in addition to my game difficulty setting, what i changed. (DSN, range modifier). Best with a window, where i can switch the planet, where the probe would be. Would be nice to see the impact of the relay if it is on eve and try to catch or send signals to destination f.e. moho. After i never programmed anything in my life, doing myself is no option.
