[TheList] Any ACARS followers out there :)

Thu Mar 3 20:48:33 AEDT 2011

Hi Chris,

Yes that is normal

02MAR11 =Date

NZWNNZAA = Route – NZWN  (Wellington) to NZAA (Auckland)

Most of the messages consisting of strings of characters are generated by the aircraft computers and relate to aircraft technical data – Pressures, temperatures etc. which are downloaded for the maintenance engineers.

Your second message is a weather report uplinked fro a ground station:

Translated it means:

RWY: 18L -  Runway in use 18 Left
SFC COND: DRY – Surface Conditions Dry
WIND: 140/05 – Surface Wind 140 degrees at 5 knots
VIS: 30KM – Visibility 30 km
CLD: FEW012 – Cloud – few at 1200 feet
T: 20 - Temperature 20 degrees 
DP: 15 - Dew point 15 degrees
QNH: 1020 - Air pressure 1020 millibars/hectopascals
2000FT: FVRB05   - Wind at 2000 feet, variable direction at 5 knots

You will get a range of message types – some are automated and some are to/from the crew.

For example:

VACARS mode: W  Aircraft reg: .ZK-NGP

Message label: 87 Block id: 6  Msg. no: M89A Flight id: NZ0560

Message content:-

3A01 OPSCTL 0560/03 NZCH/NZAA .ZK-NGP

NZAA

HI. GATE 31 0948Z.

NO REQ

CHEERS

Andy

From: Chris H [mailto:radiowiki at archnetnz.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:44 a.m.
To: zl1cop at qsl.net
Subject: RE: [TheList] Any ACARS followers out there :)

Hello again.. finally have the acarsd software up and running again.

I get messages like the following:

#1DBCRZ1024185222802MAR11NZWNNZAAM278M523370077424737308817 NZ
08540896647102603093710431006F1200002390
08530898645103703064110431005F120000742

are these normal type messages?
but I also get messages like the following:

RWY: 18L
SFC COND: DRY
WIND: 140/05
VIS: 30KM
CLD: FEW012
T: 20
DP: 15
QNH: 1020
2000FT: FVRB05

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so I can assume the following:

The software is decoding the messages correctly.
The top message is not an error, but that is actually a messages.. 
and if it is a message, how does one decode it?

Thanks in advance :)

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 22:12 +1300, Andy wrote: 

Hi Chris.

I’m not an expert but do copy ACARS from time to time.

Andy

From: thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz] On Behalf Of Chris H
Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2011 8:54 p.m.
To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
Subject: [TheList] Any ACARS followers out there :)

Could you please contact me off list... 

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