John, Sorry but I know the relative level of activity at times. There is far less ALE than various other modes and more ALE than various other modes as well. It all depends on your point of reference, just as there is Hellscriber than GTOR and more CW than PSK31, regardless your statement as to the amount of activity is false, but its also moot in my opinion. I view ALE within the scope of Amateur Radio application as tool that needs to trained on and have networks in place for use as necessary, not necessarily used daily by all, although such use is just fine and the best tool for many pursuits within ARS, however its the application of ALE for ECOM where I see ALE having the biggest benefits to the ARS.
Rather than sitting on 20 meters you should try programming all the ALE frequencies into your choice of ALE controller and scanning for 24 hours with appropriate antenna for NVIS below 14Mhz and Skywave above 10Mhz for Amateur Radio and if you are properly configured you your results will be much different. As to you what you are seeing on Channel One, it will depend on the geographic location of the HFlinkNet stations and what they are hearing based on the antenna type being used. Some are using NVIS antenna only, others Skywave antenna only, some are using something thing in between, those using automated antenna selection will be optimum, I do not know what all the stations are running. The MARS-ALE software which is being used by HFlinkNet stations supports programmable antenna selection during scanning using various devices, the CAT ANT ports in radios, external PC controlled ATU's with ant ports and dedicated antenna switches under PC control. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 11:05 PM 1/11/2008, you wrote: > >If the statement below is False, why are there >not more call signs showing up on the main ALE frequencies? > >I can leave my rig on 14109.5 or 10145.5 for 24 >hours and only see, at most 4 or 5 stations? Ditto for the ALE website >At HFlink. And 99% of those are soundings. So >where are the QSOs and the like? > >Who is up for testing the ability of PCALE to >handle a standard test document between 2 distant stations, compared to 141A or >ALE400. Ditto for a file transfer? I cant on >PCALE since I can only receive, since I have a >problem getting the software to TX. > >Anyway , in the past I have told you guys at >least 20 million times not to exaggerate > > >John >VE5MU
