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-- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:42:26 +0200 From: Thierry Leconte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: xastir@xastir.org Subject: ACARS with xastir I'm pleased to announce the availability of acarsdec http://sourceforge.net/projects/acarsdec Acarsdec is an open source, realtime ACARS demodulator and position decoder for Linux. Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (or ACARS) is a digital datalink system for transmission of small messages between aircraft and ground stations via VHF radio. Or if you prefer : ACARS is APRS for airliners... acarsdec have a special "xastir" mode where it acts like a very basic aprsd local server : ACARS messages, and in particular, position report messages are converted to APRS format, so you can plot aircraft positions with xastir. With this mode, acarsdec+xastir form a full GPL ACARS solution. For more info : http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=49312&group_id=192405 PS : A screenshot of xastir feeded by acarsdec : http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=192405 F4DWV _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir