You're right that neither ALE nor Beacons scale to 600,000 amateurs transmitting. But I think it is wrong to say hams shouldn't use ALE and should use more beacons. Every time I have tried to answer a beacon, I always get the same RST of 000. People scan with ALE when they want to talk and are ready, and don't when they aren't. 73, Leigh/WA5ZNU On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 7:49 am, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: > IMHO, an larger number of Beacon Stations would be more beneficial to > propagation forecasting than any individual station or stations > "pinging". > > Walt/K5YFW > > -----Original Message----- > From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:45 PM > To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Pinging Re: Inititating a QSO > > > I think when propagation improves people will do more talking and less > looking. ALE helps looking, especially when propagation is poor. > 73, > Leigh/WA5ZNU > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 3:31 pm, expeditionradio wrote: >>> Say for the moment that 100 Hams are pinging, what happens >>> when 10,000 Hams are pinging and they are doing so on the >>> same bands they now frequent? >>> doc, KD4E >> >> At that point, you would call it a RTTY DX contest :) >> >> Bonnie KQ6XA >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > 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 > > >
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