[ACARS] KLIA

[Ed Wilson]

Folks

Been on my travels again � this time for a birdwatching holiday in the rain 
forests of Sabah (the Malaysian bit of Borneo)

Took the PC so I could download the digital pictures from the camera, so 
took a radio and used AirNav whenever I could

Logged during transit at KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport); and then 
for most of a day in a hotel at Kota Kinabalu on Sabah

Logs at KLIA were initially on 131.55, but at a very quiet late night 
session on the way back I found 131.45 active as well, but some local 
interference meant I decoded very little of the activity on this frequency � 
a JAL MD11; and just one MAS B737

At Kota Kinabalu there seemed to be no local ground station and I was 
picking up IN / ON / OUT / OFF messages from the MAS B737s as they 
re-established ACARS contact some 5 minutes after take-off. Also a few 
fly-overs with Garuda, SIA and Qantas (QF0001 en route to LHR!) noted

I tried logging when I was 6000' up Mount Kinabalu but I must have had an 
outlook the 'wrong way' as I was logging about one MAS B737 a day!

Anyway for starters, here is the 131.55 squitter from KLIA

ACARS mode: k  Aircraft reg:
Message label: SQ  Block id:  [Uplink]
Message content:-
00XS
-----------------------------------------------------------[18/08/2002 
14:25]

And here are the two squitters from 131.45 at KLIA

ACARS mode: k  Aircraft reg:
Message label: SQ  Block id:  [Uplink]
Message content:-
00XS
-----------------------------------------------------------[18/08/2002 
14:41]

ACARS mode: 2  Aircraft reg:
Message label: SQ  Block id:  [Uplink]
Message content:-
01XAKULWMKK2ARINC
-----------------------------------------------------------[18/08/2002 
14:42]

All in all not a great result for lugging the PC half-way around the world, 
but I don't suppose I will get the MAS B737s elsewhere!

Ed


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