The link at http://hflink.net/ can give you an idea. It is fair to say that activity has improved a lot , mostly due to hard work by Bonnie who has made the documentation for getting ALE active MUCH better, and some seriously good innovations including Winlink connections and SMS message capability.
I made a bold , unsubstantiated , claim a year or so that expressed an opinion that there was probably NOT more than 25 regularly active ALE ham stations. My same wild guess ,based on monitoring and occasional use of ALE myself, is that there are now probably 100 regularly active ALE hams , world wide. A even further wild guess is that 100 is more than regularly active Hell users, DominoEx users, Olivia users, and possibly even HF NBEMS users. Again, this would substantiate Dave AA6YQ's statement a year or so ago, that almost all digital mode users on HF are PSK and RTTY active, and that other digital are so under utilized that their presence illustrates a insignificant sub-group of hams (my words not Dave's). Of course, ALE users would then point out to me that ALE is NOT a mode, it is a system that uses some digital modes. Andy K3UK > >>>> I wonder what fraction of amateur radio QSOs are initiated and sustained > >>>> with ALE. Anyone know how many amateur QSOs are typically initiated each > >>>> month? Anyone know how many amateur QSOs are typicaly initiated with ALE > >>>> each month? > >>>> > > > > 73, > > > > Dave, AA6YQ
