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ACARS SDR decoder
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136MHz supported? #87

Closed keukenrol closed 2 years ago

keukenrol commented 2 years ago

Hi

I have good reception on the 131MHz channels. I installed a new setup today to cover the 136MHz range, compiled the latest version from github. I notice however that no 136MHz messages are decoded. While the same setup does quite well on 131. Tried different gain settings without luck. Checked sdr# by streaming the spectrum and there is a lot of activity visible on the frequencies I scan. Any ideas?

fvance commented 2 years ago

The 136 MHz data link channels are going to be VDL, not ACARS, so you need a different tool to decode them.

There are two I am aware of: https://github.com/TLeconte/vdlm2dec https://github.com/szpajder/dumpvdl2

keukenrol commented 2 years ago

Excellent, I was not aware that is was a different message type. Thanks!