In WarBirds, you have four user-selected radio's available to you. Each radio can be tuned to any of 106 channels. This sounds complicated, but is actually quite simple in practice.

Look at the radio bar below:

You can see the four radio's - the channel that each radio is tuned to is shown. The radio's are numbered from left to right, and from Radio 1 to Radio 4. The currently selected radio has its associated light lit. In this example:

• Radio 1 (active radio - light glowing) is tuned to channel 12 (which I'm using to communicate with a bomber group that I'm leading.

• Radio 2 is tuned to channel 103 (the Gold country channel).

• Radio 3 is on channel 100 ( the Common channel).

• Radio 4 is tuned to =worr= (one of the trainers), who I'm bothering with questions.

You can see radio messages in the text buffer. In this case, they are all Host messages - messages from the WarBirds server, that are displayed in bright yellow. You'll see further down this page, that messages on different channels are displayed in unique colors.

To receive a summary of your radio's currently tuned channels, type .radio and press Enter.

Scrolling Text in the Radio Text Buffer

 

There are three controls on the right-hand side of the Radio Text Buffer: Up Arrow - Clicking on the Up Arrow causes the text to scroll down. You display text that has already passed up and out of the text buffer. Down Arrow - Clicking on the Down Arrow causes the text to scroll up (if you have previously scrolled down with the Up Arrow). Minimize/Maximize Button - Clicking on the Minimize/ Maximize Button (the one under the Down Arrow) causes the Radio Text Buffer to expand in height so that many more lines of text can be displayed. You can also press the Tab key to do this. You display text that has already passed up and out of the normal four-line text buffer. To minimize the Radio Text Buffer, click the Minimize/Maximize Button again. [ Top of Page ]

Tuning the Radio's

 
To tune your radio's, type the following command into one of the radio's (it doesn't matter which radio you type this into):

.radio X YYY

where X is the radio you want to modify, and YYY is the channel you wish to assign to it.

For example, to set Radio 2 to receive and transmit on channel 100 (the open channel), do the following:

1. Type / to bring up the radio bar.

2. Then type .radio 2 100 (this will appear in the radio bar), and press Enter.

Radio 2 will now be set to channel 100.

Your radio's will not reset to default tuning every time you enter an arena. Once you've tuned your radio's in an arena, the settings will be retained. The only exception is if radio 1 is tuned to one of the country channels (101, 102, 103, or 104)... in that case, it will default to your current country channel whenever you enter the arena.

 

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WarBirds Channel Assignments

 
Below is a list of the various channels available in WarBirds, with an example of how they look in the radio buffer. Each channel type is color-coded.

Channel Name	Channel No.	Channel Usage
Common	100	Everyone can transmit and receive on channel 100. NOTE: When you are in a tower or HQ, only those players in the same room will receive your channel 100 transmissions. To transmit to players in flight, use one of the country, squad, or private channels.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 100.
Red	101	Anyone can transmit, but only members of the Red country receive on channel 101.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 101.
Green	102	Anyone can transmit, but only members of the Green country receive on channel 102.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 102.
Gold	103	Anyone can transmit, but only members of the Gold country receive on channel 103.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 103.
Purple	104	Anyone can transmit, but only members of the Purple country receive on channel 104.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 104.
Squad	110	Private squadron channel - squadron members only.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 110.
Intercom	111	Intercom channel for crew of multi-crewed bombers only.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channel 111.
Private	PID	Private channel between two players only. Tune the player's 6-letter Player ID (PID). For example, -krod-
-krod-: Example of transmission on Private channel.
Ch. 1 to 99	1 to 99	Warbirds allows the use of channels 1 to 99. channels 1 to 50 are private within a country... channels 51 to 99 are common to anyone tuned to them, regardless of country. Only Radio 1 can be tuned to these channels. These channels allow private communications for fliers that are not members of the same squadron. For example, between bomber pilots from different squads on an inpromptu raid.
-krod-: Example of transmission on channels 1 to 99.
God	NA	Anyone who is logged in to the WarBirds Host with "god" privileges (normally one of the iMOL guys, or a CM), can transmit on the "god" channel. A "god" can receive all country transmissions, regardless of country.
-krod-: Example of transmission on the "god" channel.

 

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