Capturing ALE IDs and Selcalls

[caylorman]

Is there any way to get the Selcal and ALE ID's made into a text file for addition to the UDXF site? I haven't found a better source other than searching through individual monthly log files.

 

[ka3jjz]

There is a utility floating around, I think, that can read the logs and extract this information, but I can't come up with it. Probably better to ask on the UDXF group itself and see what folks are using to do this

Mike

 

[majoco]

Selcal decoding isn't going to tell you much. If you listen after you hear the selcal tones most likely you will hear the aircraft reply "United 813 answering selcal" or similar. If you then searched on the aircraft flight number it will tell you which aircraft it is by registration and then somewhere will be the selcal code for that aircraft. The selcal code is solely for that aircraft, not a flight number.

 

[caylorman]

I meant for Mike Chace-Ortiz's site that is now closed. He had a huge database of collected ALE and Selcal identifications. Did those get saved and moved elsewhere? That was my first location to see what I was actually hearing on the utility bands.

 

[ka3jjz]

They've been passed to Ary Boender to see if they can be added to the UDXF website. However I think that stuff was WAY out of date and not been updated in years. After so many years, it's doubtful that a particular ALE ID that meant something a few years ago means the same thing now.

There is a list of US military ALE identifiers that is updated from time to time (last time was just this past March) and is uploaded to the UDXF website. In fact there's quite a list of military organizations that are described along with their ALE identifiers found here...

Utility radio info files

And Hugh Stegman has a HUGE list of ALE frequencies here....

http://www.ominous-valve.com/ale-list.txt

And I finally found that utility I was talking about earlier that folks use to parse logs...

https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

Mike