Ok G-BPEC,
Still not sure what you mean, but I'll just give it a shot trying to explain.
I think I have never received an acars that I couldn't read (to understand is something else). Maybe it is because it is coded and decoded by our company-software. It is done automatically I think, because we as dispatchers don't have to decode it. And we don't receive it on our printers like you do on your home-PC. It isn't a process that I'm involved in. Just maybe you are using the wrong decoding program. Just an example of how an acars looks like if we receive it:
**177
good evening
can you give as an
update on the vulc-
ano situation.
regards,
crew **177
Doesn't seem like a mass of numbers/letters, does it? And every ACARS we receive looks like this...
Hope this explains your question
regards
JB