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Wire Tapped achievement in Elite: Dangerous

Wire Tapped

Scan 50 listening stations

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  • TwobbyTwobby
    25 Nov 2016 31 Oct 2016 31 May 2017
    I thought that I'd make up a collection of known Listening Stations so that other TAers could help toward finding 50 stations, it will be a while before this is completed. If you find a station or series of stations clump them together so we know which ones go with each other and then comment on here and I'll edit the solution as more are found. Be sure to equip your ship with an Advanced Discover Scanner and use it in unknown systems. You won't likely find these in populated space but you can find them near it. Listening Stations won't show up until you're within 1000 LS of them and they orbit stars, planets etc so fly around a little bit and they will show up eventually. Some of the listening posts have counted twice for the achievements. It appears that if you wait for an unspecified time (~1 month) you can revisit old Listening Stations and have them count again for you.

    The ones that I will start with were found by Lurking Lawyer
    COL 285 Sector FG-X D1-49
    Hyades Sector EB-X D1-59
    Hyades Sector IR-U B3-5

    COL 359 Sector LH-J B10-5
    COL 359 Sector NH-J B10-1
    COL 359 Sector RN-S C4-14

    HIP 98328
    Col 285 Sector LJ-P C6-17
    Col 285 Sector ML-Z B15-5


    Courtesy of derechtegraf1
    COL 285 Sector MY-o B7-2
    COL 285 Sector GN-H B11-0
    Pic Tok

    COL 285 Sector GI-H B 11-6
    Belispel
    Pegasi Sector TT-X A2-2

    COL 285 Sector IZ-R B20-2
    COL 285 Sector EC-J C10-4
    COL 285 Sector KD-H C11-3

    COL 285 Sector ER-V D2-46
    COL 285 Sector GM-V D2-72
    HIP 12959

    Graffias
    Lupus Dark Region JY-Q B5-1
    Lupus Dark Region DW-V B2-1

    COL 285 Sector RV-K C9-8
    COL 285 Sector LU-M C8-6
    COL 285 Sector QA-L C9-3


    Cornandnuts sent me these systems:
    HIP 63386
    MEL 111 Sector BL-O B6-0 (first is a letter o second is number 0)
    COL 285 Sector CI-V B18-0

    5 Chi Lupi
    Ruka
    Scorpii Sector IR-W C1-35

    HR 6514
    COL 285 Sector KM-V B18-3
    Wredguia IT-J B51-2

    HR 6348
    COL 285 Sector PH-E B14-2
    COL 285 Sector AZ-B B15-0



    Here are some I found:
    Synuefe KM-E B59-10
    Synuefe DP-J B56-5
    Col 285 Sector FW-D C12-24

    Wredguia kc-k c22-1
    Wredguia eb-f d11-37
    Wredguia eb-m c21-11


    RedDragonSwords found these:
    Mel 111 Sector CL-P b5-1
    Gliese 452.3
    HR 4535


    Born Knight 74 added these:
    Hyades Sector EB-X D1-59 (Planet 1)
    Hyades Sector IR-U B3-5 (1D)
    Pegasi Sector TT-X A2-2 (4)
    COL 285 Sector EC-J C10-4 (ABC 1)
    COL 285 Sector GM-V D2-72 (7)
    COL 285 Sector CI-V B18-0 (A3)
    COL 285 Sector PH-E B14-2 (5)
    Wredguia eb-f d11-37 (AB 5)
    Wredguia eb-m c21-11 (ABC 1A)
    HR 4535 (4)

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    SbN SpacefishFound three more:
    Taygeta 3
    HIP 16431 1
    Pleiades Sector DL-Y D40 1
    Posted by SbN Spacefish on 20 Dec 19 at 08:34
    SashamorningThanks for this! A loop like DrJekl posted would be great if anyone could insert a few more into it, but that's annoying to do.

    toast
    Posted by Sashamorning on 12 Jun 20 at 05:48
    The GlobalizerFYI, these from the deleted user's comment have two listening posts each:

    Pleiades Sector HR-W d1-57 [x2 posts]
    Pleiades Sector IV-H c2-5 [x2 posts]
    HIP 19072 [x2 posts]
    HR 1185 [x2 posts]

    Also can add:

    Celaeno [x1 post]
    Delphi (aka Pleiades Sector IR-W D1-55) [x1 post]
    Electra [x1 post]
    HIP 17044 [x1 post]
    HIP 17497 [x1 post]
    HIP 17892 [x2 posts]
    Pleiades Sector GW-W C1-13 [x1 post]
    Pleiades Sector OI-T C3-7 [x1 post]
    Pleiades Sector PD-S B4-0 [x2 posts]

    The Pleiades area seems pretty dense with listening posts so that and Teorge are a good start to this achievement and worth prioritizing before doing DrJekl's loop.

    Note that the messages received at many of the listening posts literally give you 1-2 other locations to visit for another listening post. wink
    Posted by The Globalizer on 01 Aug 20 at 21:04
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  • DureraDurera
    31 Dec 2016 31 Dec 2016 31 Dec 2016
    All the info I gathered from various community sites and my own exploration (see "sources" page) is collected in this Google Spreadsheets document I have shared:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-HtqVsrTVbk-Z6wUTJhG...

    I'll be keeping it up to date as new discoveries crop up.. if you just care about the achievement you only need to look at the first page though. The other pages provide details (spoliers) about the story behind the listening post transmissions.

    The posts are listed in the order that I visted them in an effort to minimise travel time ... if like me you intend to do the loop visiting all 48 listening posts it'll take you on a 4676.44 Ly trip around the edge of the bubble. In the systems themselves you'll find yourself flying another 32768.2 Ls to reach the listening posts themselves.

    As there are still only 16 discovered listening post quests/stories you will need to revisit two of the posts a second time if you want the achievement right now ... for me, allowing 18 days to pass before re-scanning the first two posts I visited was enough to pop the achievement.

    The number of jumps will vary depending on the ship you have, any half-decent jump range ship will suffice as you are not travelling into deep space, I wouldn't attempt this with less than a 25Ly jump range personally.

    If you are doing them all in one hit as I did then you really must take a decent fuel scoop to eliminate downtime. You'll be able to keep your tank filled up easily as long as you filter your route to scoopeable stars only (FOG KBAM), you can easily complete the route using only scoopable stars. Add all the systems as bookmarks before you start off and then simply follow the same route I took.

    When a listening post is not within 1000Ls of the main star in the system it will not show up in the nav panel, you should be able to use the information in the spreadsheet to plot your way to the correct planetary body easily enough.

    The screenshot below will give you a rough idea of the route and what your system map should look like after you have set up your bookmarks:

    http://imgur.com/sXtBfXF

    FWIW, I took my Asp with a 6A fuel scoop and ~45 Ly jump range and it took around 5-6 hours to visit all the systems over a couple of sittings playing in the background while I did other stuff.
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    xRosierroxCOL 285 Sector MY-0 B7-2 - there is a spelling mistake here. It should be corrected to a letter 'O'.
    Posted by xRosierrox on 30 May 17 at 23:25
    xRosierroxBy the way, thank you for copying the information into a spreadsheet and making it more convenient to follow. Working hard on my completion. : )
    Posted by xRosierrox on 30 May 17 at 23:27
    TinzkiZiwaAwesome spreadsheet! I followed it and managed to scan all of the listed listening stations over a couple days. In addition to the 48 listed on the spreadsheet, I hit the Pollux and Shinrarta Dezhra Pilot's Memorial listening stations on the way back through the Bubble (since I already had the Exploration Elite at the time) to pop the achievement.
    Posted by TinzkiZiwa on 03 Apr 21 at 21:13
  • SashamorningSashamorning
    12 Aug 2020 11 Aug 2020 11 Aug 2020
    Just to add to the other solutions, there is a page that lists a lot of the current listening stations. There are a lot more than 50 right now. Some of the stations can be counted twice if you come back to them after some time (a few weeks).

    Here's a pretty good list. https://canonn.science/codex/listening-posts

    toast
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