[digitalradio] ALE in a nutshell (and ALE dating FLARQ)

2008-01-12 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I'll say again... the only thing wrong with the concept of ALE is the lack of active users. Everything else about ALE makes perfect sense to me. Here are the basics. Automatic Link Establishment = the software (or firmware) stores reception reports and when you want to call a known station it

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in a nutshell (and ALE dating FLARQ)

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, All true, I could not agree more! /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 10:20 AM 1/12/2008, you wrote: I'll say again... the only thing wrong with the concept of ALE is the lack of active users. Everything else about ALE makes perfect sense to me. Here are the basics.

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in a nutshell (and ALE dating FLARQ)

2008-01-12 Thread Alan Barrow
Thanks Andy for an excellent summary of ALE I do have one slight correction: enough. The concept of ALE requires automated beacons, soundings, that are often unattended. ALE does not require soundings. It's still a huge value add to be able to find a station or assemble a net through a net

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in a nutshell (and ALE dating FLARQ)

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Alan, I agree to a point, it depends on ones focus, if you recall I have always run my GAP DX Voyager antenna when looking for world wide activity such as in HFlink events, that antenna at 100 watts and an ATU works all Amateur bands 100%. However using a Skywave antenna heavily takes