Re: [digitalradio] ALE in Emergency HF use (Re: Another look at ALE)

2006-03-15 Thread doc
Really, when you get down to it, the biggest strong points of ALE is the standard itself, since it is becoming nearly ubiquitous built in to government and commercial transceivers. There are so many EOC, SHARES, NGO organizations, and government HF stations now that have ALE built in to their

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in Emergency HF use (Re: Another look at ALE)

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Doc, The following is in response to your antenna comments. At about $150USD, either of the two antenna designs in the article below, especially the random wire, will work great from a typical 1/2 acre lot, the doublet will require an ATU with most rigs, the random wire mostly will not:

[digitalradio] ALE in Emergency HF use (Re: Another look at ALE)

2006-03-15 Thread expeditionradio
Doc kd4e wrote 1. Tiny installed base outside of government and professional emergency response agencies and responders and a few volunteer emergency response groups. Hi Doc, Every system starts small and expands. Things are changing. Especially here in California, there are a lot more

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in Emergency HF use (Re: Another look at ALE)

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Paul, I look forward to those details, please test both LE and SE predicated on your CPU, here for my systems running Linux, it would have to be LE as none those boxes have enough horsepower for SE. /s/ Steve, N2CKH/AAR2EY At 08:06 PM 3/15/2006, you wrote: doc wrote: 2. Difficulty of