Thanks for confirming this, Andy, When I monitor the ALE frequencies, particularly the 14109.5 frequency, I do hear a fair amount of ALE throughout the day, and sometimes other modes. I admit that the stations that I am hearing are the same ones over and over and over. Generally speaking there are maybe 20 or 30 discrete callsigns that come up.
Contrary to comments made by Bonnie, KQ6XQ, she does not own these 40 "channels" on HF that she is claiming for ALE use only with her outrageous comment that: "It is likely that anyone who says they are getting their keyboarding QSO clobbered by ALE is intentionally provoking trouble by purposely operating in the automatic sub-band, right on top of the active ALE pilot freq" Others have used this frequency for wide bandwidth modes for quite some time. It was even published long before any ALE operation. Some how these scofflaws need to back off a bit and rethink what the amateur bands are all about ... which is shared spectrum. Not shared for one mode, but shared for everyone. 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: > I have found that I could NOT transmit once. This was during the > presence of a strong broadcast band station in the 40M band. I then > tested by sounding on top of WWV, a strong SSb signal and a strong AM > signal, each time PC-ALE attempted to transmit. Thus , I conclude > that I need to be present during any sounding with mouse fingers close > to the "pause" button. That said, it is RARE that my ears detect > anyone on the ALE suggested sounding frequencies.
