19990825: ACARS question

Chris,

You will not receive ACARS data from your upstream source.
FSL prefers the point-to-point delivery for this data stream.
You will actually have to contact FSL and they will feed your
machine directly from theirs.

See the URL in the original announcement (shown below)
for how to contact FSL to receive this data.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport

From: Linda Miller <address@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:23:57 -0600
Subject: 19990614: ACARS Data Available
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All,

ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) data
are now available for research and educational uses to the Unidata
university community from NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)
using point-to-point LDM technology.

These data can be useful in a multitude of applications including
modeling, aviation and weather research, and training purposes.  In
return for the data, participating airlines are hoping to gain
additional information on the use of the data through scientific papers
presented at symposia such as the AMS and AGU annual meetings, etc.

For detailed information on the data sets, how to obtain the data, and
the restrictions on their use, please refer to the FSL ACARS web page:

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/FAQ.html

Please contact Unidata support (address@hidden) for
information on decoders for use of ACARS with Unidata-supplied
application packages.


Linda Miller
External Liaison, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303 497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690
URL:  http:/www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/lmiller/un.act.html



>From: Chris Hennon <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199908251851.MAA28385

>Steve -
>
>Hello.  I am trying to configure my machine to ingest acars data.  My
>pqact.conf file exactly matches (I think) yours that I saw in another
>support email:
>
>#  FSL ACARS data
>PCWS    ^FSL\.NetCDF\.ACARS\.QC
>        PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcacars -v -b 30
>        -e GEMTBL=/usr/local/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
>        -l data/logs/dcacars.log
>        data/acars/YYYYMMDDHHNN_acars.gem
>
>I have the decoder in place, and all of the paths look good.  No log file
>is being created, so I can't check that.  Does that mean that dcacars is
>never being invoked?  I am assuming that the ACARS data is in fact in the
>datastream (as I'm requesting "ANY" from my source).  
>
>Please advise.  Thanks.
>
>Chris
>
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