HFDL

General Information

The High Frequency Data Link HFDL (ARINC Report 635-3) is used in civil long distance aircraft communications between aircrafts and a cluster of ground stations.

Usage:

§ Aeronautical information exchange over HF.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

PSK2/4/8

 

Bandwidth (Hz)

400

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

1800

 

Error correction

ARQ

 

 

Data rate (bps)

300 / 600 / 1200 /1800

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

PSK data added

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

1800

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

9

 

Modulation order

2

 

Shift (Hz)

170

 

Min. burst length (s)

2.100

 

Max. burst length (s)

5.000

 

Min. pause length (s)

0.010

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

no

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

no

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center of the signal

Frequencies (kHz)

San Francisco USA, 2947 4672 5508 6559 8927 10081 11327 13276 17919 21934

Molokai USA, 2947 3019 3434 4687 5463 5514 6559 6565 8912 8936 10081 11312 11348 13276 13312 13324 17919 17934 21928 21937

Reykjavik  ISL,  3116 3900 5720 6712 8977 11184 15025 17985

Riverhead, USA 3410 3428 5523 5652 6646 6652 6661 8831 8885 8912 10027 11315 11354 11387 13276 17919 17934 17952 21931 21934

Auckland NZL, 3016 3404 5583 6535 8921 10084 11327 13351 17916 21949

Hat Yai THA  3470 4687 5655 6535 8825 10066 13270 17928 21949

Shannon IRL, 2998 3455 5547 6532 8843 8942 10081 11384

Johannesburg AFS, 3016 4681 8834 13321 21949

Barrow USA, 2944 2992 3007 3497 4654 4687 5529 5538 5544 6646 8927 8936 10027 10093 11354 17919 17934 21928 21937

Albrook PAN, 2902 6589 6589 10063 17901 21940

Santa Cruz BOL, 2093 3467 4660 6628 8957 11318 13315 17916 21946 21973 21988 21997

Krasnoyarsk RUS, 2878 2905 4679 5622 6596 8886 10087 13321 17912 21990

Al Muharraq BHR, 2986 5544 8885 10075 11312 13354 17967 21982

Agana GUM, 5451 6652 8927 11288 11306 13312 17919

Telde, CNR, 2905 5589 6529 8948 11348 13303 17928 21955

Table 126: HFDL

Figure 44: HFDL Spectrogram