Well said, well done, and well thought out - Thank You! Ham's have been running ALE for a long time (at least a decade for me, boy does time fly!), and I am not aware of anyone running ALE who has ever received a Notice from the FCC. Our early evaluation work with ALE started out with a special letter to the FCC that included all the callsigns that were going to be running ALE. We received no restrictions about it then, and none since .... even after numerous communications about ALE to and from the FCC about ALE operation and its unattended nature that is inherent into its original design and intent.
Appreciate this great forum, and thanks to those here that I have seen their callsigns on the ALE HFN system from time to time. We can use the participation, and encourage many more to come on board. Regards, and 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ http://hflink.net/qso/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brabham" <n5...@uspacket.org> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone Hard to tell if you are trying to ask a question, or make a statement. In either case though, your post indicates a lack of understanding that I may be able to relieve. Unattended operation has been codified into PART97 for close to thirty years now, and was done in response to the emergence of digital communications on the ham bands. Part of the 'why' of this codification of unattended digital communications can be garnered from the introduction at HamRadioNet: snip snip 73 DE Charles Brabham, N5PVL
