[PCR-1000] packet output

[Brian Winter]

Hi Jim,
Yup, you're right on both counts.
That'll be why it didn't work so well !!!
Glad I didn't spend too much time on that.
Thanks for your observation
Regards
Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Shaffer" <jmshaffer@alltel.net>
To: <pcr-1000@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [PCR-1000] packet output


> On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:58 pm, Brian Winter wrote:
>
> > Interestingly, I have tried the discriminator output with ACARS and
results
> > seem to be worse than speaker o/p at first trial - less messages
decoded,
> > although a fairly short test.
>
> OK, I'm confused.  It's been a while since I've tried ACARS, the radio is
on
> another computer, and the manual is hiding, but I'm fairly sure that the
> "packet" output on the 1000 is documented as only being useful for the FM
> mode.  I had assumed that ACARS would be AM, the same as everything else
in
> the air band.  Is this a faulty assumption?  (It could be, because I had
such
> terrible luck decoding ACARS that I gave up on it.)