ACARS

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= ACARSD = After struggling with the acarsd suite for some time, I decided to give up. I managed to get the installer to run under Ubuntu 10.10, which seems to be more than post people.



I then had a struggle with the internal libraries; this is when I gave up:

george:/opt/acarsd$ ./acarsd acarsd - ACARS suite v 1.65 - (C).2003-2006 by KjM acarsd@acarsd.org web: www.acarsd.org mail: acarsd@acarsd.org Your version of libacarsd.so is not supported System stopped Versioninformation from libacarsd: Version 1.46 Revision 2 george:/opt/acarsd$

The program doesn't recognise the only version of the library (from acarsd.org, the official website) then I have no idea how to get it working! Seems overly complex for my liking. It's supposed to be good software, it's just trying hard to appear bad!

= PlanePlotter = After giving up on acarsd I decided to have a play around with PlanePlotter. Now PlanePlotter is a Microsoft Windows application, and so I was warey of how it would function under Ubuntu (Linux). Excellently, is the answer. I have not found anything that does not work. I am still on the 21-day free trial, but it seems to work very well.

I am using a Yaesu VX-7R Amateur Radio handheld on 131.725 MHz, AM, with the output fed into my PC's soundcard. The antenna is a $$\lambda/4$$ vertical antenna on the roof of the front of the house. With this setup, I managed to obtain some of the following images.

Raw Data & Aircraft View
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Satellite Maps
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Street Map & SkyView
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Outline Maps
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