I have decided to start a yahoo group specific to ALE. There is already a Yahoo Group that is dedicated to PC-ALE in the form of HFLINK. This site is full of many very helpful hams but I am frustrated by the almost clandestine approach that this Yahoo group takes. The group is heavily moderated and access to PC-ALE requires membership to the yahoo group. While the owner of that group is free to run their group in any way they want, I feel that this approach is simply stifling the growth of ALE on HF and essentially making ALE via PC-ALE a private ham mode under control of one ham.
I hope that one day the HFLINK will have less restrictive , more public domain, practices and an "Open ALE" Yahoo Group will not be required. The new group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ALEradio Discussion of ALE for hams and SWL's using PC-ALE and/pr Multipsk
