[ACARS] Odd messages

[Ed Wilson]

Folks

Can anyone help identify these: seem to be genuine messages: one suggests 
Berlin as destination, and 'AB' in the text. Air Berlin?

Oddly he seems to get a reply! Note that AirNav seems to ignore these. Data 
is from an Airmaster V3 log

Example one - clean. Is this flight number AB3547 perhaps? And perhaps 
D-ABxx on station 'T' with message type 'Q0' with block id '8' message no 
'S17A
If so what happened to the other characters!?
ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  G.D-AB
Message label: T   Block id: Q  Msg. no: 8 S0
Flight id: 7AAB35
Message content:-
47
-----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
12:14]

Example two - also clean
ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  G.D-AB
Message label: W   Block id: Q  Msg. no: 9 S4
Flight id: 5AAB14
Message content:-
53
-----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
15:31]

Example three - although with typical Airmaster misreads this clearly 
suggests a flight from Tenerife to Berlin
ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  G.D]>=
Message label: 1j  Block id: N  Msg. no: M}2O
Flight id: G>>B1y
Message content:-
G^GCTSEDDT171515pOOONO p 0/

-----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
15:31]

Example four - just two minutes after the previous, but with 'E.D' rather 
than 'G.D'. Also somewhat misread
ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  E.D-AB
Message label: W   Block id: Q  Msg. no: 0 S^
Flight id: ^AAB14
Message content:-
53
-----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
15:33]

Examples five and six: these consecutive entries (second somewhat garbled) 
in the log support that there is a 'G.D' and 'E.D' format
ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  G.D-AB
Message label: T   Block id: Q  Msg. no: 9 S8
Flight id: 7AAB21
Message content:-
99
-----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
23:44]

ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  E.D-AB
Message label: T   Block id: Q  Msg. no: O},G
Flight id: G>>=21
Message content:-
99
-----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
23:45]

Ed






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