A few HF ACARS logs from last night

[Intellifax]

Here are a few HF ACARS logs from yesterday 4/3/11. Was just tuning around some and trying to catch some of the ground stations that I don't listen to that often. There were many more heard, just listing a few of the more interesting ones. Not trying to turn this into a logging section, just stirring up a little interest in HFDL/HF-ACARS. Will only post maybe one or two unusual ones now and then in the future.

0139Z, 10075 KHz: Al Muharraq Bahrain wkg AVA014 (Avianca A-330 from Cali Columbia to Madrid), position rpt off west coast of St Kitts.

0140Z, 10075 KHz: Bahrain wkg KQ0321 (Kenya Airlines B-737 5Y-KYF from Khartoum to Nairobi), position rpt 300 miles south of Khartoum.

0507Z, 17967 KHz: Bahrain wkg SU0107 (Aeroflot A-320 VQ-BHL from Moscow to Frankfurt), log on request.

1903Z, 17928 KHz: Hat Yai Thailand wkg SA0286 (South African Air A-340), position rpt 500 miles east of Madagascar.

1911Z, 17928 KHz: Thailand wkg GAF848 (German Air Force A-310 #15 from 10+21 squadron), position rpt 75 miles SE of Sofia Bulgaria.

2314Z, 8977 KHz: Reykjavik Iceland wkg EK0000 (Emirates 202, a A-380 A6-EDC from JFK to Dubai UAE), ACARS messages. (I didn't decode the messages).

2320Z, 8977 KHz: Iceland wkg CO0104 (Continental Airlines B-767 from Newark to Athens Greece), position rpt 115 miles SE of Halifax.

2324Z, 8977 KHz: Iceland wkg LH8360 (Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 D-ALCF from Frankfurt to Barcelona), position rpt 40 miles NW of Marseilles France.

 

[majoco]

What's your home 20, good buddy?

Um sorry, where do you live to get the coverage?

Thanks!

 

[Intellifax]

NW Ohio USA

 

[majoco]

Strange that you get the good coverage over to your East. During the day I get signals from aircraft all round and over the Pacific and I would have hoped to get further during the evening - BUT I notice from the schedules that the high frequencies are in use during the day and lower at night (of course!:roll so the stations on the other side of the globe are on frequencies that just go over the top of me at night. Perhaps I'll give up sleeping and see what I get. Google Earth works well with PC-HFDL so I may leave it running tuned to Iceland or Canarias and see what I get....

 

[Intellifax]

I get real good coverage to the east, my problem areas are around you and into very northern Russia. Don't get Magadan (Siberia) very often, and rarely NZ or Australia. I hope to fix that with the new antenna this summer.

 

[majoco]

Australia AFAIK doesn't have an HFDL site unless theyv'e take over slot 11. There's only Auckland down here and they're not very active compared to Molokai and Santa Cruz. Guam is pretty quiet too, I would have thought that they would have had good coverage from a sea level site. Mind you the Auckland site is in a salt marsh so they would have a good ground plane for reception.