connecting radio to pc for acars

[n13tlr]

All
I am sure I read somewhere in the forum that you can connect a scanner
to the PC and use it to receive ACARS information.
If this is the case where does the information show up.
I have loaded the ACARS 1.70 which runs alongside my SBS so would any other ACARS messages being received by the scanner appear
on the same screen in addition to what I am normally getting.
Or am I barking up the wrong tree altogether.
What I am trying to get is different ACARS messages to those received by
ACARS 1.70 if its possible.
Hope I have made myself understood and it makes sense to some of you
Thanks in advance
Nick

[satcom]

Morning Nick

Your SBS1 cannot handle ACARS.

However if you want to see your own SBS output and ACARs messages in one programme , then download Planeplotter
http://www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm

Which will give you all you need , plus much more

You will be able to test and set up your own input using the free trial version.
After that a single payment of 25 Euro is required to register

Use the Wizard to help set things up.

[Keith D]

Hi

You can watch your own sbs1 and acars messages in ACARSD
and its all for FREE but i think you have the wrong version

go to this one

http://www.acarsd.org/RC/

download the windows version
unzip to an empty folder

run the quick install when asked if you are going to connect to
sbs1 click yes

ACARSD will auto find your sbs1 output and display messages
it will also download all the routes and display them and if you want it to pictures of the individual aircraft and also add the aircraft type to the message window plus translate a lot of the alpha numerical call signs

from here you will need to adjust the .INI file to add your acars messages from your scanner

there you go all for FREE no need to give anybody a single euro

cheers

K/

[ecuguru]

Having the SBS and a commercial receiver sitting side by side, and Acars running on both setups, For the day I got 1 single message using the SBS's internal radio, and I got 120 using my normal receiver.

While I believe it's possible to get Acars messages using the SBS, I haven't been able to make it work. Settings Tried: With the squelch all the way off, and adjusting the volumes to different levels. If anyone has had better luck, I'd certainly like to hear it. It just doesn't seem the radio, our output, is fast enough for handling data at those speeds.

[Keith D]

Having the SBS and a commercial receiver sitting side by side, and Acars running on both setups, For the day I got 1 single message using the SBS's internal radio, and I got 120 using my normal receiver.

While I believe it's possible to get Acars messages using the SBS, I haven't been able to make it work. Settings Tried: With the squelch all the way off, and adjusting the volumes to different levels. If anyone has had better luck, I'd certainly like to hear it. It just doesn't seem the radio, our output, is fast enough for handling data at those speeds.

Hi

this one goes back a number of years to nearly start of soundcard
acars decoders.

2 guys in Canada same software and antennas
one getting loads of decodes[for canada] the other guy nearly nothing

could it be the radios they thought after a while they found out they where 3 miles apart

guy with plenty decodes goes around to other guy and they swop radios over guy with no decodes now gets plenty

answer was 2 different radios that was all

it was decided on a group posting like yahoo that the answer was the tone
of the radio output
someone in uk with a good system borrowed a like radio as the canadian one that had no decodes--hooked it up and bingo decodes collapsed
re connected his own and away it went again

now i am like you at moment

connected acarsd to a scanner[Signal 535] in windows 7 for the first time today
plenty beeps few decodes and can i find the tone controls for the line in record controls . can i heck

this scanner produced loads of decodes under XP
dont remember using it with Vista

cheers

K/

[chrisg0wtz]

Having the SBS and a commercial receiver sitting side by side, and Acars running on both setups, For the day I got 1 single message using the SBS's internal radio, and I got 120 using my normal receiver.

While I believe it's possible to get Acars messages using the SBS, I haven't been able to make it work. Settings Tried: With the squelch all the way off, and adjusting the volumes to different levels. If anyone has had better luck, I'd certainly like to hear it. It just doesn't seem the radio, our output, is fast enough for handling data at those speeds.

The SBS radio delivers audio like any other receiver so the question is what is the difference in how the radio presents itself to the PC.
I have the SBS fed into line input and volume one third up on the SBS Radio control panel.
That with ACARSD resolves any packets it hears.
Many PC's are sensitive to audio at the best of times so it may need a bit of playing but once set it should be as good as any other receiver

Regards