About your setup...Re: [ACARS] New Regs in Almere 030623

Sam Junior [email protected]
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:23:38 +0300


Hello Nick
Considering the radio bandwidth of ACARS transmissions, 9600 baud (symbol 
rate) sounds awfully lot. Unfortunately I have my ACARS manuals in another 
computer so I could not verify it.

-Sam


>From: Nick Birrell <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: About your setup...Re: [ACARS] New Regs in Almere 030623
>Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:09:56 -0400
>
>Sam Junior wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Hans, for your reply.
> > I believe I got your point.
> >
> > A brute force probability that your scanner is on right frequency when 
>the
> > transmission starts is something like 25%, I believe. But then, maybe 
>the
> > missed fraction of the second in the beginning is not that fatal. I have
> > never counted how long does it take to send <SYN><SYN><SOH> in ACARS. 
>Was it
> > 2.4kbps and 8 bits per character? So it wont take long at all.
> >
> > And no matter what is the probability, you seem to have an exellent hit 
>rate
> > anyway.
>
>ALL ACARS transmission are 9600 BAUD
>
>
>--
>Nick
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