[aprssig] ACARS

[Earl Needham]

At 12:23 PM 1/1/2005, Spider wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Needham" <needhame1 at plateautel.net>
>To: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 11:06 AM
>Subject: [aprssig] ACARS
>
>
>>
>>As many will remember, I am VERY interested in ACARS, but there doesn't 
>>seem to be a "TNC" available (for a reasonable price) that will decode 
>>ACARS packets.
>>
>>What about sound card decoding?  Any thoughts on this?  How 'bout it, Bob?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Earl
>
>A few of us on FireNet played with this.  I used a service monitor and an 
>aircraft radio to receive the packets.
>I have fair results using a sound card but do not like the use of 
>soundcards for anything.  Others did not have such good results and I 
>think gave up on the project.  If you are going to do this, then an 
>investment in a read demodulator is necessary, IMHO.

         Gee, this just keeps getting harder.  I'd really like to "see" 
airplanes on my APRS screen, in addition to stations actually running 
APRS.  Is there a simple, easy, not expensive (read: NOT $750 for a box) 
way to do this?

         Thanks again,
         Earl


Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico  DM84jk
<http://kd5xb-2.no-ip.info>