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ACARS
Sept 23, 2007 9:40:11 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Sept 23, 2007 9:40:11 GMT
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tigger
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Sept 30, 2007 12:03:43 GMT
Post by tigger on Sept 30, 2007 12:03:43 GMT
Anyone had a go at receiving ACARS Yes. Potted history.... First heard the ACARS data bursts years ago and wondered what they were. Forwarded example to a mate who wrote me a program to decode the contents. The program developed into a product called Airmaster which was marketed by Lowe (and an early version was branded for AEA/Timewave in the USA). Making sense of what was seen on the screen was great fun as there was no real info available to the public. Ed Flynn in the USA was the only other person I knew to be interested at the time. He went on to write a book called "Understanding ACARS" which was published by Universal Radio Inc. Ed and I e-mailed each other regularly and slowly found other people who were interested (my interest was the radio not spotting). Small group grew a bit and I set up a mailing list and the first ACARS hobby website with decoded examples, details of different airlines use of ACARS, logs from software etc. Soon after this I had my first nasty letters from airlines (they gave up eventually). Bart Hoekstra came along with a nice piece of database software to extract info from the software logs and the spotters started coming on board in droves as they could mark off frames even if they'd not read them (I've never understood spotters like that). Eventually I exhausted the technical interest side and moved on to other things. Nick Birrell, Tony Orr and others carried on with what I'd started. Eventually they merged our info with the commercail software site of Mark Avery as the site you quoted. Mark isn't making enough money selling his software so the site has largely dried up. In the interim lots of other software decoders have been released with loads of spotter-friendly features. ACARSD is pretty nice and excellent value for money - share ACARS data all over the world (so i guess the oddball spotters can now just mark off any frame fitted with an ACARS unit!). Multi-platform support and it's free. |
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Sept 30, 2007 12:15:17 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Sept 30, 2007 12:15:17 GMT
Thanks for your interesting reply, I am looking into what is needed and how much it will cost to start receiving ACARS.
cheers
Mike
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tigger
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Sept 30, 2007 12:32:04 GMT
Post by tigger on Sept 30, 2007 12:32:04 GMT
Thanks for your interesting reply, I am looking into what is needed and how much it will cost to start receiving ACARS. cheers Mike Radio, with headphone socket, capable of receiving VHF Airband Cable to take audio from radio to PC PC, with soundcard, running any operating system Software (from free to very expensive depending how much you want to spend) |
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Sept 30, 2007 12:43:35 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Sept 30, 2007 12:43:35 GMT
I have all the above all I need is to try a free version of the software first.
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tigger
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Sept 30, 2007 12:55:50 GMT
Post by tigger on Sept 30, 2007 12:55:50 GMT
I have all the above all I need is to try a free version of the software first. ACARSD is free and has a good set of features. Using it you can even do away with the radio and cable if you don't want to tie up a radio. I'm not sure how good coverage of your immediate area will be as I've not looked at the list of servers for a while. You can share your own data with other users so if you are in a nice high spot with good VHF coverage you could make your data available to all the other list members. For completeness I'd better add that very few military aircraft use ACARS |
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Sept 30, 2007 16:59:47 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Sept 30, 2007 16:59:47 GMT
I have it downloaded but rather stumped on how to set it up !!  |
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tigger
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Sept 30, 2007 19:41:02 GMT
Post by tigger on Sept 30, 2007 19:41:02 GMT
I have it downloaded but rather stumped on how to set it up !! pm me with where you are up to and what you have done so far |
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Sept 30, 2007 20:31:24 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Sept 30, 2007 20:31:24 GMT
pm sent
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tigger
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Oct 28, 2007 17:48:22 GMT
Post by tigger on Oct 28, 2007 17:48:22 GMT
How did you get on Mike?
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Oct 28, 2007 18:19:32 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Oct 28, 2007 18:19:32 GMT
I could not get it set up.......  |
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tigger
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Oct 28, 2007 19:00:26 GMT
Post by tigger on Oct 28, 2007 19:00:26 GMT
I'm in the middle of a house move but if you will wait a couple of weeks we can devote some time to sorting it out?
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Oct 28, 2007 19:06:59 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Oct 28, 2007 19:06:59 GMT
Cheers mate....
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tigger
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Dec 12, 2007 15:12:48 GMT
Post by tigger on Dec 12, 2007 15:12:48 GMT
Shack not set up yet but at least I now have internet access.
If you still want to try and get acarsd working drop me a pm.
Also ref a post of yours I saw....361.525 is UTAD 125
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Dec 18, 2007 21:04:43 GMT
Post by "YellowBelly" on Dec 18, 2007 21:04:43 GMT
Hi tigger, you have a pm...
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