Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-12 Thread Rick
John and group, There is minimal ALE activity here in North America. Maybe there are untold thousands of operators in other parts of the world but not here. For those who have been hams for any length of time and operated HF, it is obvious that the higher HF frequencies are not open very

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Hajducek
Rick, You obviously don't understand NVIS, the bulk of all my ALE activity is NVIS based, this is true of Amateur Radio as well, which is 30m and lower ( 5Mhz thru 11Mhz is excellent during the day, that is our premiere MARS range, 5-7Mhz can be counted on 24/7 by the way, its too bad that

[digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread John Bradley
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

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Les Warriner
Now, 20 million + 1 73 At 08:05 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

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Hajducek
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