[ACARS] No Luck Here

Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:52:20 -0000

Have you ticked any of the boxes in the 'Display Options'
column. You must tick the HFNDU box as it gives the interesting bit, the
message. I would suggest you tick all the boxes at first and the messages
will tell you how far off frequency your receiver is tuned. You want to be
within about 60hz + or - of the exact freq. Good luck.

Ted Brooks
Isle of Man

Hope this helps
----- Original Message -----
From: "Subin Jacob" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: [ACARS] No Luck Here

> Hi,
>
> I've been following all that has happening with PC-HFDL but
> today was the first day I actually got to try it out myself.
> Unfortunatly I don't seem to be getting any results :o(   I'm
> using a 1.7Ghz machine with a SB Live card, and for a long
> time VHF acars has been working very well with Wacars and
> 'Line In'.  But when I try HF monitoring with PC-HFDL I don't
> seem to be picking up anything.  I'm also using a Sony 2001D
> and have tried all the freqs in my region (Brisbane - ie.
> Guam, Auckland, Hawaii etc) but nothing displays on screen.
> Are you meant to get a squitter message every 32secs?  I can
> physically hear the squitters every now and again, but PC-HFDL
> only says "Listening" and that's it.  What could I be doing
> wrong here?  I've also been exiting the program using the Exit
> button rather than the X.  Meanwhile, the other usual voice HF
> freqs are loud and clear, and now these squitters sound pretty
> strong too.  It's just PC-HFDL doesn't do anything.  Any
> suggestions?
>
> Other thing I wanted to ask is, is it similar to wacars where
> the raw data is meant to be displayed on the top box, and any
> decoded data in the bottom box?  That is, every 32 seconds, is
> something new (whether it's actually decoded or not) should
> apprear in the top box?  I'm not getting anything?
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Subs
>
>
>
>
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