Allow beacons to be placed on ground units

[Whisper]

Something of a very little topic, but would be interesting for CSAR types mission, I guess.

 

AFAIK, Beacon types of radio emitters (the ones that can be placed with "activateBeacon" command) can only be placed on airborn units , otherwise you get an error.

 

For ground based radio emitters, the current solution is to use the "radioTransmission" function. It kind of works, but (maybe there's something I missed), I noted that the "frequency width" of these signals (ie, the range between the lower freq and upper freq between which signal is detectable) is really pretty large (around 20 kHz width), making precise radio homing tuning useless.

Beacons are actually much narrower. I don't get why they would need to be limited to airborn objects only.

 

Would it be possible to remove the object type check and allow the command "activateBeacon" to be issued for any type of units?

[VTJS17_Fire]

+1