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
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
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
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
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