[ACARS] KLIA

Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:58:27 +1200

Ed,

Your email was a very refreshing change from the usual run of the mill stuff
and almost read like a book.  It is very frustrating when you have spent so
much effort in organising and setting things up only to be undone by QRM.
Were the Malaysian authorities inquisitive by your use of a scanner?

I remember a few years back 'pinging' a couple of Malaysian 737s in
Auckland.  I'm not too sure what they were doing but I think they may have
been on charter or freight duties.  Those logs are buried deep in a zip file
on an archive CD somewhere so I can't recall the registrations off hand.

Anyway, must have been a very interesting holiday for you.

Regards

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Ed Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 18:52
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ACARS] KLIA

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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