[ACARS] Multiple Scanners

Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:46:34

Colin

Two antenna - splitting the signal from one antenna will seriously degrade 
both and result in you getting even fewer messages than you do scanning

Then you will need two PCs or two different ACARS programs, one using a 
'dongle' (e.g. Airmaster); the other using a sound card

Since Airmaster V3 for DOS will run happily on a 286 or later, just buy an 
old PC and transfer the data by floppy (use pkzip, a free download, if the 
files are too big)

That's what I do with 3 PCs

Ed

>From: [email protected]
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>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [ACARS] Multiple Scanners
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:04:58 EST
>
>Hi!
>
>I am currently using the acars primary channel (131.725) only to decode 
>acars
>as when I use my scanner (mvt-7100) to scan more than one channel I lose
>about 50% of messages available (from approx. 1000 messages a day to
>sometimes as low as 400 messages a day).  I now have a second scanner (icom
>pcr-1000) and want to use both scanners on different channels.
>
>Can someone tell me what extra equipment I need to decode two channels at 
>the
>same time?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Colin Acton.
>Wrexham, North Wales, UK.
>
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