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General => Aviation => Topic started by: orkney on June 04, 2010, 08:22:17 PM

Title: selcal and acars
Post by: orkney on June 04, 2010, 08:22:17 PM

Hello

I would like to try the acars and selcal decoders but don't want (or see the need) to give credit card details. Also If I did decide it was good for me why is it a recurring (not just one off)  payment  of $34.95 each every 6 months since you provide your own  data so there isn't an network price like radarbox and it cant be software updates since selcal was updated last in 2002 and acars in 2004.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Andrew

Title: Re: selcal and acars
Post by: nortonbeak on June 05, 2010, 08:37:40 AM

There are a couple of freeware ACARS decoders that you can try. Obviously, neither of these link to the RadarBox software in the way that the AirNav one does.

http://www.acarsd.org/download.html (http://www.acarsd.org/download.html)

or

http://users.telenet.be/ronny.stobbaerts/hampage/digital_modes/wacars.htm (http://users.telenet.be/ronny.stobbaerts/hampage/digital_modes/wacars.htm)

I don't know of any freeware SELCAL decoders that you could try. The only stand alone decoder for SELCAL that I am aware of is the AirNav one.

Title: Re: selcal and acars
Post by: orkney on June 05, 2010, 08:56:19 AM

hello

I have tried the freeware acars ones and they don't seem to work for me so I was just wanting to try the airnav one to see if it worked.

I am not caring too much about secal since they normaly  say the 4 letters before giving the tone.

Anyway after looking into it I don't think I would pay for software that is so old.

Andrew

Title: Re: selcal and acars
Post by: jannuh on June 09, 2010, 02:37:09 PM

I think AcarsD is best there is on Acars, PlanePlotter has also Acars decoder, but the messages aren't nicely formatted as in AcarsD.

Coaa (maker of PlanePlotter) has also a program for selcall decoding.

Btw for Selcall you need a descent shortwave receiver, the cheap ones have to much drift.

More info: you can view the positions of Acars msgs received with AcarsD also in PP (PlanePlotter); with PP you can also view the positions of HF Acars (PC-HFDL software).