NZACARS - Setup

I like to keep my setup quite simple and straight forward so I have one VHF
receiver for decoding ACARS and second VHF receiver for voice monitoring
when time allows.

VHF Setup:

I feed the signal down from the WBA-20 using RG-58 coax to the
UBC72XLT via a right angle BNC connector. The audio out from the scanner
is fed to a Creative Soundblaster soundcard in my HP Pavillion P4 2.66 GHz
PC running Win7 Ultimate.

HF Setup:

This is on hold until I reconfigure my set up for Virtual Radar operations!

Software Setup:

ACARSD is started and the DDE set to WACARS mode so that POSFIX
picks up the position reports and dislays them.

The DDE output from POSFIX is then fed into AirNav Suite 4 for a nicer
plot of positioning aircraft.

I have a MySQL database set up that is fed VHF data from ACARSD.
This is a brilliant option as it allows me to do some analysis on the
data, either from the messages or some date and time analysis etc.

The other great thing about the ACARSD MySQL is that I can post the data
to my website and monitor the activity form any web browser at home or
away (also so that you can do likewise).