I think that many of us have played around a bit with ALE but not found it very compelling as a mode. It may be useful for applications where you have users who do not understand HF propagation and who just want to make a connection automatically. This is perhaps more common for military or government use.
One possible value would be to use it as a way to make contact with others who might want to switch to other digital modes since with the plethora of so many modes now, it gets difficult to even know where anyone might be at a given time with a given mode. ALE does use a fairly high baud rate, so it would seem that conditions would have to be fairly good to work well on HF. Since we are always looking for a new digital mode that can work better and faster than existing modes, that is why the interest in anything new. ALE doesn't satisfy that particular need, but perhaps it may be used for some niche purposes. 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: >With the interest in some of PAX2's capabilities, I wonder if folks >here have forgotten about ALE? It seems to me that it offers link >abilities, message exchanges , signal information, and much more. I >still think ALE is a missed "digital" mode. It is more >than "digital", but people here might want to revisit it. > >PAX2 interest seems to center on the responder/beacon features and the >use of the mailbox to contact people not at their desk. >ALE's "sounding" and scanning accomplishes much of the aforementioned. >There are also some email capabilities and message sending >abilities. The scanning, and use of data to determine best >path/band, essentially enable someone to "drop by" your station >rather than send a message. > >I wonder why we don't see that much "action" on this reflector when it >comes to ALE, but a new mode gets jumped on quickly? > >Andy K3UK > > > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
