[ACARS] Fw: [acarsd] ACARS long distance DX

[Acarsd]

Hi all,
Triggered by a post from Joe (thanks) in one of the ACARS related groups I discovered a whole new angle to decoding acars messages.
It seems that due to special VHF conditions you sometimes receive messages over a much larger distance than you normally would think 
possible.
So I manually checked part of my logs and found these squitter messages that contain the groundstation ID and sometimes its 
coordinates and frequency.

 My best DX so far (but still have to make a small program to automatically searchall my logs) is this one from Athens/Ellinikon
Airport:
 ACARS Mode: x  Aircraft reg: _______
 Message Label: SQ Block ID: [Uplink]
 Message content:-
 01XSATHLGAT0
 ----------------------------------------------------------[10/01/2010 11:23]-

 Other (more or less  serious) DX:
 ACARS Mode: r  Aircraft reg: _______
 Message Label: SQ Block ID: [Uplink]
 Message content:-
 02XSFRAEDDF05001N00836EV136975/
 ----------------------------------------------------------[31/01/2011 11:33]

 ACARS Mode: e  Aircraft reg: _______
 Message Label: SQ Block ID: [Uplink]
 Message content:-
 02XSMLHLFSB04735N00731EV136975/
 ----------------------------------------------------------[03/01/2010 09:46]-

 ACARS Mode: x  Aircraft reg: _______
 Message Label: SQ Block ID: [Uplink]
 Message content:-
 02XSZRHLSZH04728N00833EV136975/
 ----------------------------------------------------------[26/01/2010 17:13]-

 ACARS Mode: 2  Aircraft reg: _______
 Message Label: SQ Block ID: [Uplink]
 Message content:-
 02XACDGLFPG24901N00232EB136975/ARINC
 ----------------------------------------------------------[14/02/2010 08:21]-

 ACARS Mode: g  Aircraft reg: _______
 Message Label: SQ Block ID: [Uplink]
 Message content:-
 02XSSXBLFST04833N00738E
 ----------------------------------------------------------[14/02/2010 11:07]-

 Cheers,
 Dick
 Location: 52°12'N  5°55'E