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TAC-EW Arma Reforger Mod

SIGINT radio, WiFi, radar and aircraft intercept app for Kova ATAK: hear AI and player radio nets, find WiFi access points, track radars and towers, and watch aircraft, all by signal strength.

6A901D339C1B32E2
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Ranking

Popular#426981.4Rising#56589.7
14Serversrunning this mod
1Observed players nowon servers reporting this mod
582Estimated player-hours (7d)7-day data
DeploymentTop 11%88.9ahead of 89% of tracked mods by servers running it
ActivityTop 30%70.2ahead of 70% of tracked mods by play on those servers
Popularity81.4deployment and activity combined
How those 14 installs happen100% traced
  • Not identified as a dependency14
Last 30 days
Servers, last 30 days
14 latest16 peak, 19 Oct1 low, 10 Oct

Servers reporting the mod in each hourly observation. Covers 10 days of the last 30 days.

Daily values
Servers, last 30 days, one row per day (UTC)
DayLastPeakLowObs.
10 Oct45123
11 Oct99524
12 Oct1213924
13 Oct911924
14 Oct10121024
15 Oct11111024
16 Oct11121024
17 Oct12121024
18 Oct15151224
19 Oct14161415
Observed players, last 30 days
2 latest15 peak, 16 Oct0 low, 10 Oct

Sampled player counts on servers reporting the mod; not unique players. Covers 10 days of the last 30 days.

Daily values
Observed players, last 30 days, one row per day (UTC)
DayLastPeakLowObs.
10 Oct66023
11 Oct110024
12 Oct1011024
13 Oct111024
14 Oct610024
15 Oct99024
16 Oct315024
17 Oct1414024
18 Oct610024
19 Oct26015

Calculated Oct 19, 2026, 2:13 PM UTCDerived from observed server and mod activity. Trend positions describe recent observed change, not future adoption.

Summary

SIGINT radio, WiFi, radar and aircraft intercept app for Kova ATAK: hear AI and player radio nets, find WiFi access points, track radars and towers, and watch aircraft, all by signal strength.

Official Workshop description

TAC-EW adds a SIGINT (signals intelligence) app to your Kova ATAK tablet. Intercept radio traffic, find WiFi networks, hunt radars and towers, and track aircraft, using only what a real receiver could pick up. HOW IT WORKS - Works in any mission or world. Load the mod and it runs. Nothing to place - Four tabs: PTT (radio), WIFI, EMIT (radars and towers), AIR (aircraft) - Signal strength falls with distance and is weakened by terrain and buildings - Everything you find is saved in a logbook on your own tablet PTT: RADIO - Every AI group has its own net and frequency. When someone keys up, it shows live on your tablet - Only living, conscious soldiers carrying a powered radio can transmit. Kill the radio operator and that voice goes quiet - Players show up too when they hold push-to-talk on a radio. Direct speech is never intercepted - List shows frequency, side (BLUFOR, OPFOR, INDFOR, CIV) and dBm, with a side filter. Base game and RHS factions are sorted automatically - Tap a row to pin it. Pins stay at the top and are saved - High gain finds distant signals, low gain narrows in on a close one (close signals peg out as SAT) WIFI - Every home, shop, office, school and military building has its own access point with name, MAC, channel and security (open, WEP, WPA2). Some are hidden. Players' tablets appear as hotspots - A WiFi adapter hears further than a phone connects, but every wall weakens the signal - Pin a network and walk toward it. Get within a few metres of the building and it is located - With a network pinned and in range you see DEVICES CONNECTED: the exact number of living people, players and AI, inside the building EMIT: RADARS AND TOWERS - Finds approach radars, transmitter towers, airport antennas and control towers anywhere on the map - Radars sweep, so the signal pulses as the beam passes you. Hills block the signal and the radio horizon limits range - Pin one and hunt it by signal strength until it is located. No compass, by design AIR: AIRCRAFT (ADS-B) - Works like an ADS-B receiver. Any helicopter or plane in the air is listed, modded ones too - Shows hex ID, type, side, altitude, distance and bearing. Terrain and the radio horizon decide what you can hear - Pin one to follow it MAP MARKERS (OFF BY DEFAULT) WiFi circles and aircraft dots can be drawn on the ATAK map. Press the MAP button on the WIFI or AIR tab to turn them on. Nothing is added to the map for players who don't use SIGINT. FOR SERVER OWNERS - Starts itself on the server and every client. To change settings, add one SIGINT_TxScheduler component to any entity and assign the SIGINT_Transmission.et prefab. If one is placed, it is used instead of the automatic one - Settings: radio interval, length, range and receiver gain, player distance for AI traffic, hear-own-transmissions, require radio, WiFi on/off, range and chance, and EMIT and AIR on/off - Performance: the signal model only runs while the app is open on that tab. The server finds radars and towers once, in small steps. Radio traffic is only simulated near players PLANNED - GM tools to keep frequencies the same across restarts - Cellular emitters (IMEIs) NOTES - AI frequencies re-randomize on each server restart until the GM tools are added - Unknown mod factions show as INDFOR. Tell me which to add - Early release. Report bugs with your log files, or find me in the KOVA Discord as Gus REQUIREMENTS Kova x ATAK and Kova x ATAK Plugin Core. Load order: Kova x ATAK, Plugin Core, then TAC-EW. Servers need both too. Built as a plugin for Kova x ATAK by KOVA (Workshop author: gaz8157). It uses the published plugin interface and registers through the plugin registry. All credit for the tablet, framework and plugin system goes to KOVA. This is an independent plugin and is not made or supported by KOVA. Kova x ATAK: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A49417788E13618-KovaxATAK Kova x ATAK Plugin Core: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A497C56E583A9B2-KovaxATAKPluginCore KOVA: https://kova.host

Servers running this mod

14

14 currently listed servers report TAC-EW in its mod list. Showing the 5 with the most players.

View all 14 servers

Versions

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published · approved · 117 KiB
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published · approved · 18.3 KiB
1.0.10Game 1.8.0.13 · 117 KiB · Oct 13, 2026
Dependencies: 2Scenarios: 0PublishedApproved
- WiFi: nothing is located automatically anymore. In the hunt view, tap MARK while standing next to the building you think it is (UNMARK to clear). The game never tells you if your guess is right.
- Fixed: parts of a building (doors, windows, separate pieces) and fences no longer count as extra walls, which caused very weak readings right next to a house.

config.json entry

{
  "modId": "6A901D339C1B32E2",
  "name": "TAC-EW",
  "version": "1.0.10"
}

Use TAC-EW on your server

Add TAC-EW to the game.mods array of your server config.json. The config generator builds the full file, the mod manager keeps the mod list and its dependencies organized, and the config validator checks an existing config. The adding mods guide and mod dependencies guide walk through it step by step.

Fetch this mod from the API

The same metadata is available as JSON. See the API quickstart, the V2 reference, or the V1 reference.

GET https://api.reforgermods.net/v2/mods/6A901D339C1B32E2
GET https://api.reforgermods.net/v2/mods/6A901D339C1B32E2/versions

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