Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400: Ready for next stage ?

2010-05-24 Thread Jon Maguire
Andy, We can do all this in Multipsk, right? No need for PCALE etal? 73... Jon W1MNK On 5/22/2010 8:34 AM, Andy obrien wrote: With dozens of NEW ALE 400 operators in the past week since K2MO's QST article, I wonder if the new ALE 400 enthusiasGs are now ready for the next logical stage in

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400: Ready for next stage ?

2010-05-24 Thread Andy obrien
Yes. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Jon Maguire w1...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Andy, We can do all this in Multipsk, right? No need for PCALE etal? 73... Jon W1MNK On 5/22/2010 8:34 AM, Andy obrien wrote: With dozens of NEW ALE 400 operators in the past week since K2MO's QST

[digitalradio] ALE 400: Ready for next stage ?

2010-05-22 Thread Andy obrien
With dozens of NEW ALE 400 operators in the past week since K2MO's QST article, I wonder if the new ALE 400 enthusiasGs are now ready for the next logical stage in ALE 400 sue... SCANNING and LINKING. Using ALE as it was intended , over multiple channels . I've been down this road before and had

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-20 Thread Hal Stang
it was quite interesting. again thank you, 73 Hal Stang WD4MDA - Original Message - From: H Stang To: H Stang WD4MDA Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:44 AM Subject: Fw: [digitalradio] ALE 400 - Original Message - From: Patrick Lindecker To: digitalradio

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-20 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Hal, For details about beacon: http://f6cte.free.fr/The_ARQ_FAE_beacon_easy_with_Multipsk.doc 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Hal Stang To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 Patrick

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-20 Thread Nikola Nikolov
! Best 73's ! De Nick - LZ1ZM - Original Message - From: Patrick Lindecker f6...@free.fr To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 Hello Nick, Look at this paper: http://f6cte.free.fr

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-19 Thread Patrick Lindecker
- Original Message - From: H Stang To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 Chuck, I saw your email and went to 14074 but didn't hear or see you. Band was ruff. just finished two ALE 400 QSO's with KEIAF

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-19 Thread Patrick Lindecker
: [digitalradio] ALE 400 What about those having not access to QST and still wishing to try out ALE 400 ? Best 73's! De Nick - LZ1ZM On Wed, 19 May 2010 04:15:39 +0300, Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com wrote: June QST On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:07 PM, wb4...@teara.org wb4...@teara.org

[digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread ac5pw10
Is anybody on to tinker with ALE400?? It's 1751Z I'm monitoring 14074.00 and will monitor most of the rest of the day. I'm still trying to figure it out so please bear with me till then. 73, Chuck AC5PW

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread H Stang
about that. So more study. Good luck. Hal Stang WD4MDA Hellschrieber #: FD 2599 wd4...@comcast.net Jacksonville FL - Original Message - From: ac5pw10 To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:56 PM Subject: [digitalradio] ALE 400 Is anybody

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
I was wondering what that noise was. Guess the pactor did not bother you.

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread charles standlee
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, May 18, 2010 2:42:37 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400   Chuck, I saw your email and went to 14074 but didn't hear or see you.  Band was ruff. just finished two ALE 400 QSO's with KEIAF AND WB2LMV.  QSB aplenty. I am in the same mode of trying

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread charles standlee
, WØJAB w0...@big-river.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, May 18, 2010 3:56:41 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400   I was wondering what that noise was. Guess the pactor did not bother you.

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread wb4...@teara.org
At 05:56 PM 5/18/2010 -, you wrote: Is anybody on to tinker with ALE400?? It's 1751Z I'm monitoring 14074.00 and will monitor most of the rest of the day. I'm still trying to figure it out so please bear with me till then. 73, Chuck AC5PW I know this is probably an old question... but is

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread Andy obrien
June QST On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:07 PM, wb4...@teara.org wb4...@teara.org wrote: At 05:56 PM 5/18/2010 -, you wrote: Is anybody on to tinker with ALE400?? It's 1751Z I'm monitoring 14074.00 and will monitor most of the rest of the day. I'm still trying to figure it out so please

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2010-05-18 Thread Nikola Nikolov
What about those having not access to QST and still wishing to try out ALE 400 ? Best 73's! De Nick - LZ1ZM On Wed, 19 May 2010 04:15:39 +0300, Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com wrote: June QST On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:07 PM, wb4...@teara.org wb4...@teara.org wrote: At 05:56 PM

[digitalradio] ALE 400 : 8 watts from a Hamstick

2010-05-16 Thread Andy obrien
Not bad, Colorado to New York with SF 69 and K Index 2. CQ DE K6CIA [FAE CQ] CQ DE K6CIA [FAE CQ] CQ DE K6CIA [FAE CQ] [Connection done with K6CIA] hello and thanks for call...name Jim and qth Pueblo, Colorado...very nice day here, and ur pretty strong...i have some intermittent noise, but

[digitalradio] ALE history

2010-04-15 Thread Andy obrien
Bill gave me an idea... I looked over the history of ALE on this group. Here are some firsts First meneion of ALE May 13th 2000 Attached Ale programme for anyone interested. Runs via soundcard. Derek { G4JFI } Sat May 13, 2000 6:40 am Derek Shipman de...@g4jfi.freeserve.co.uk

[digitalradio] ALE-400 Chat Mode Skeds pse

2010-04-09 Thread Tony
All, I'll be QRV ALE-400 CHAT MODE this evening. 14074.0 / 3586.0 +/- QRM. Please send email direct for skeds. Thanks, Tony -K2MO

[digitalradio] ALE busy detect

2010-04-09 Thread Andy obrien
In her OWN WORDS, she states that ALE is a listen-first mode Actually, this is true...to a degree. PC-ALE does have the ability to detect the presence of a signal and delay the start of a sounding . It does not work very well however, in my experience less than 10% of the time.. WINMOR, on

[digitalradio] ALE this weekend? ALE400 as a standard for digital CQs?

2010-03-04 Thread obrienaj
If anyone has any interest in using PC-ALE or Multipsk to do standard ALE and ALE 400 transmission. I will be in the digitalradio part of the K3UK Sked Page at 1300-1400 hours March 6th and willing to help anyone that needs assistance. The focus will be on ATTENDED ALE operations and

[digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA

2010-02-09 Thread Andy obrien
I have received three emails in the past 3-4 weeks suggesting that the FCC has an application to protect certain HF frequencies and reserve for exclusive ALE use. Two emails also suggest that people operating on ALE frequencies have received emails asking them to NOT use the frequencies . Is

Re: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA

2010-02-09 Thread phil williams
I have head in the past of folks of 'reminded' using the ALE frequencies for other modes is frowned upon. I personally never heeded the advice as I am of the opinion that if the frequency in not in use, then it's up for grabs. I have not heard about any proposal on the table about a proposal to

Re: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA

2010-02-09 Thread Tony
Sounds fishy to me Andy... Tony -K2MO - Original Message - From: Andy obrien To: digitalradio Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:57 PM Subject: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA I have received three emails in the past 3-4 weeks suggesting

Re: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA

2010-02-09 Thread KH6TY
From the regulations: Sec. 97.101 General standards. (a) In all respects not specifically covered by FCC Rules each amateur station must be operated in accordance with good engineering and good amateur practice. (b) Each station licensee and each control operator must cooperate in selecting

Re: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA

2010-02-09 Thread Alan Barrow
Tony wrote: Sounds fishy to me Andy... I'm heavily involved in Worldwide ALE activity hflink.net operations and can tell you I have no awareness of any such thing. I suspect it's residual FUD (fear, uncertainty doubt) flowing over from QRZ.com. :-) Have fun, Alan km4ba

RE: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA

2010-02-09 Thread John Bradley
Of Andy obrien Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:58 PM To: digitalradio Subject: [digitalradio] ALE and protected frequencies in the USA I have received three emails in the past 3-4 weeks suggesting that the FCC has an application to protect certain HF frequencies and reserve for exclusive

[digitalradio] ALE: The great KA1GMN experiment

2009-11-22 Thread Andy obrien
Well, it was not really a GREAT experiment in the grand scheme of things... but it worked . Phil KA1GMN proved my earlier point about ALE.. despite a lack of overall robustness comapred to other digital modes... it IS USEFUL for finding people. Today I was scanning multiple frequencies and

Re: [digitalradio] ALE: The great KA1GMN experiment

2009-11-22 Thread Phil Williams
It would have been a great experiment if I had known what I was doing. In typical philw fashion, I jumped head first and thrashed around, randomly spinning knobs, flipping switches, tapping on meters, toggling the mains, and throwing levers in a completely random fashion. Eventually, I managed

[digitalradio] ALE scanning tonight

2009-10-13 Thread obrienaj
FYI, I will be scanning all standard ALE channels tonight 80-10. Link if you see me. One of these days I'll scan all standard ALE and all ALE400 channels at the same time and see if I can blow up my radio! Andy K3UK

Re: [digitalradio] ALE scanning tonight

2009-10-13 Thread Tony
Andy, FYI, I will be scanning all standard ALE channels tonight 80-10. Tried calling - can you see the KB3JAJ pilot station? I'm on the sked page. KB3JAJ:[23:25:56][ 3.5MHz ] [TO ][K3UK ] De [K2MO ] Tony -K2MO

RE: [digitalradio] ALE scanning tonight

2009-10-13 Thread John Bradley
pilot station? what freq on 80 tonight? John VE5MU From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:30 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE scanning tonight Andy, FYI, I

[digitalradio] ALE-400 - Keyboard mode / ALE

2009-10-10 Thread Tony
All, I've been advocating the use of ALE-400 ARQ FAE as a keyboard chat mode and it seems that some may be unaware of the modes additional features. Aside from keyboard chat, ALE-400 can be configured to automatically respond to connect requests, messaging, and LQA (Link Quality Analysis)

[digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-09-30 Thread Tony
All, I'll be QRV ALE-400 in the evenings on 20 meters. My station will not be left unattended so please see Andy's sked page for activity. Skeds welcome via email @ d...@otponline.net QRG - 14106.0 USB DIAL Testing - ALE-400 sounding / connects / chat mode QSO / mail transfers. Sked

RE: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-09-30 Thread John Bradley
tried just now (2200UTC) nothing yet. Ve5EOC and VE5MU both listening John VE5MU From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:41 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew O'Brien
...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Tony *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:41 PM *To:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds All, I'll be QRV ALE-400 in the evenings on 20 meters. My station will not be left unattended so please see Andy's sked page

Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-09-30 Thread Tony
: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds I will be attempting to set up Email via ALE400 tonight. Andy K3UK On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John Bradley jbrad...@sasktel.net wrote: tried just now (2200UTC) nothing yet. Ve5EOC and VE5MU both listening John VE5MU *From:* digitalradio

RE: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-09-30 Thread John Bradley
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds Andy, Long chat with Jose (CO2JA) on ALE-400 this evening. He was running his 10 watt Manpack rig and G5RV. Tony -K2MO - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien mailto:andrewob...@gmail.com andrewob

[digitalradio] ALE-400 Testing Resumes

2009-09-28 Thread Tony
All, I'll be QRV ALE-400 each evening for the rest of this week starting tonight. My station will not be left unattended so please see Andy's sked page for activity. Skeds welcome @ d...@otponline.net QRG - 14106.0 USB Testing - ALE-400 sounding / connects / chat mode QSO / mail transfers

[digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds Pse

2009-09-24 Thread Tony
All, Anyone care to chat on ALE-400? I'll be on 20 meters this evening. Skeds welcome Tony -K2MO

Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds Pse

2009-09-24 Thread Tony
QRV ALE-400 - 14074.0 Tony - K2MO - Original Message - From: Tony d...@optonline.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:31 PM Subject: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds Pse All, Anyone care to chat on ALE-400? I'll be on 20 meters this evening

[digitalradio] ALE-400 QSO WID OH7JJT

2009-09-06 Thread Tony
All, Had a nice ALE-400 QSO with OH7JJT today at 17:00z on 20 meters. He mentioned that there are other OH stations active on this mode and that they work regularly on 80 meters. Tom, WB2YDS was able to connect to OH7JJT as well running 5 watts to a vertical. This is one ARQ chat mode that

[digitalradio] ALE 400 Digital sked page

2009-08-28 Thread Sholto Fisher
Just wondered why there are so few spots on Andy's sked page recently? http://www.obriensweb.com/sked/ also I am QRV on 14074 with RS-ID and CALL ID monitoring. 73 Sholto K7TMG

[digitalradio] ALE-400 in Qso with VE5MU

2009-08-28 Thread Tony
All, In Qso with VE5MU ALE-400 / 14074.0. Time is 23:30z. I'll be here all evening. Tony -K2MO

[digitalradio] ALE-400 - New Version Works FB

2009-08-23 Thread Tony
All, Patrick made a few changes with ALE-400 and the latest version seems to be working fine. The test version ran smoothly during my QSO with K0PFX (thanks Mel). 73, Tony -K2MO

[digitalradio] ALE-400 QSO Basics

2009-06-15 Thread Tony
All, Multipsk / ALE-400 ARQ QSO Basics... Connecting: 1. Switch to ALE-400 mode in the main window. 2. Click ARQ FAE button 3. Click AUX FUNCTIONS - Aux Functions window will appear. 4. Enter the stations call sign in the SELECTIVE CALL ARQ FAE box. 5. Click the CALL button. Answering: 1.

[digitalradio] ALE-400 QSO Basics

2009-06-15 Thread Tony
All, Multipsk / ALE-400 ARQ QSO Basics... Connecting: 1. Switch to ALE-400 mode in the main window. 2. Click ARQ FAE button 3. Click AUX FUNCTIONS - Aux Functions window will appear. 4. Enter the stations call sign in the SELECTIVE CALL ARQ FAE box. 5. Click the CALL button. Answering: 1.

[digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-06-11 Thread Tony
All, I'll be QRV ALE-400 ARQ chat mode this evening. QRG 14074.0 USB +/- QRM Skeds welcome Tony -K2MO

RE: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

2009-06-11 Thread Fred VE3FAL
@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds All, I'll be QRV ALE-400 ARQ chat mode this evening. QRG 14074.0 USB +/- QRM Skeds welcome Tony -K2MO --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090610-0, 06/10/2009 Tested on: 6/11/2009 7:51

[digitalradio] ALE-400 FAE -- ARQ Collisions

2009-05-28 Thread Tony
All, It's important to make sure your rigs vox delay is off when working ALE-400-ARQ. We've managed to cause a few tx/rx change-over collisions while in QSO by forgetting to turn it off. Tony -K2MO

Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400

2009-05-27 Thread Rick W
Hi Tony and group members, Based on the use (or non use) of ARQ modes for general ham use, suggests to me that they are going to be primarily used for messaging. This is something that we must have for public service/emergency communications, but there are relatively few who are oriented

[digitalradio] ALE-400 / minimum S/N

2009-05-27 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, About S/N here are my measures: Lowest S/N (125 bauds ARQ FAE in ALE): - 6.5 dB(- 8.5 dB with many repetitions) Lowest S/N (50 bauds ARQ FAE in ALE400): - 11.5 dB(- 13.5 dB with many repetitions) The tests have been done with 30 characters message. The Tony's tests, as far as

[digitalradio] ALE-400

2009-05-26 Thread Tony
All, Had a chance to see ALE-400 in action for the first time thanks to K7TMG. I was very pleased to see how sensitive the mode was and how well balanced it is between bandwidth and throughput. I did test ALE-400 with a path simulator a while back and sensitivity was very good. It seemed to

Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400

2009-05-26 Thread Sholto Fisher
And another point worth emphasizing is now that MultiPSK's RS ID detection can be extended throughout a 44KHz bandwidth using its SdR interface, it should be possible to initiate an ALE400 FAE ARQ connection to a friend using their SELCAL which will be detected by them automatically anywhere

RE: [digitalradio] ALE-400

2009-05-26 Thread John Bradley
26, 2009 4:37 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] ALE-400 All, Had a chance to see ALE-400 in action for the first time thanks to K7TMG. I was very pleased to see how sensitive the mode was and how well balanced it is between bandwidth and throughput. I did

Re: [digitalradio] ALE-400

2009-05-26 Thread Tony
baud HF Packet!!! Are you available for a contact? I'm on 14073.0 USB + 1000Hz. ALE-400 Tony -K2MO - Original Message - From: John Bradley jbrad...@sasktel.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:32 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Hey man you

[digitalradio] ALE digital activity

2009-03-04 Thread Andy obrien
The link at http://hflink.net/ can give you an idea. It is fair to say that activity has improved a lot , mostly due to hard work by Bonnie who has made the documentation for getting ALE active MUCH better, and some seriously good innovations including Winlink connections and SMS message

[digitalradio] ALE 400

2009-01-21 Thread John Bradley
VE5MU is back on 3584.5 beaconing every 2 minutes (as of 2300Z)

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change

2008-06-07 Thread Patrick Lindecker
to the antenna, which is sufficient for a continuous working. HW? 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Rick W. To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 3:42 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change Hi Patrick, As you know the Russian

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change

2008-06-07 Thread Howard Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2008 3:20:53 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change Hello Rick, Do you think that it would be possible for some hams to develop something similar, or better yet, follow the MIL-STD specifications so

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change

2008-06-06 Thread Rick W.
With the ALE/FAE modes, the basic ALE 8FSK waveform is used, only slowed down in baud speed from 125 to 50, with the improved sensitivity but reduced throughput, but of course, a much narrower ham friendly bandwidth conserving mode when in ALE/FAE400 vs ALE/FAE 2000. Note that the bandwidth is

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change

2008-06-06 Thread Patrick Lindecker
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change With the ALE/FAE modes, the basic ALE 8FSK waveform is used, only slowed down in baud speed from 125 to 50, with the improved sensitivity but reduced throughput, but of course, a much

[digitalradio] ALE 400 auto speed change

2008-06-05 Thread Andrew O'Brien
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: speeds to match conditions, something that has not been done to any great extent on sound card modes. Rick, KV9U Would it be possible for ALE 400 in multipsk to use the SNR measurement of the slave

[digitalradio] ALE and ALE400

2008-05-12 Thread expeditionradio
Sholto KE7HPV wrote: Hello Bonnie, I was wondering if you could bring me ( others in the group) up-to-date with your MIL 188-141A ALE experiments? Hi Sholto, Most of the experimental aspect of ALE ended in 2002 when the first basic ham radio ALE standards were developed. Those

[digitalradio] ALE activity

2008-05-09 Thread Andrew O'Brien
-Sholto, AMD seems to be the most used when I am active but often ham's will played around and sometimes used both during a connect, just to test conditions. Some recent activity... , mostly soundings... NJ7C: [03:43:20][ 14.1MHz] DE [K7EK] BER 30 SN 13 NJ7C: [03:43:27][ 14.1MHz] DE

[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.

[digitalradio] ALE growing

2008-01-12 Thread expeditionradio
I always chuckle when operators who have never used scanning ALE or never even used ALE on the ham bands try to make pronouncements as if they are experts. I have 100 ALE stations in my log here since I reset the log file just before the AOTAW event in October 2007. My ALE station is not

[digitalradio] ALE performance development

2008-01-12 Thread Alan Barrow
Rick wrote: There is minimal ALE activity here in North America. Ahh, the personal dispute with ALE again. OK, I'll bite. You could also say there is a minimal of pskmail, nbems, or other activity. The I listened and did not hear much argument. If we used that, you'd conclude the only active

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 performance development

2008-01-12 Thread Rick
Alan, If you look at your response, you will see that you mostly agree with what Andy, and John and I have been saying. And it is fair to say that there is minimal PSKmail and NBEMS activity. Much, less than wide band ALE (141A). Of course most digital hams here in the U.S. are not going to

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

Re: [digitalradio] Ale Sounding: What is it and how does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Hajducek
John, Your message below is easy to summarize succinctly, thanks. At 09:48 PM 1/10/2008, you wrote: Chris , ZL1BOE you will be told by others that ALE is widely used to set up QSO’s and QSY’s using the one line message ability . You will also be told that it is used widely for keyboard to

[digitalradio] Ale Sounding: What is it and how does it work?

2008-01-10 Thread John Bradley
Chris , ZL1BOE you will be told by others that ALE is widely used to set up QSO's and QSY's using the one line message ability . You will also be told that it is used widely for keyboard to keyboard QSO's and that there are thousands of Hams using ALE ( last figure I heard was 6000) . These

[digitalradio] ALE 400

2007-12-29 Thread John Bradley
Happy New Year to all! Just before Christmas, Sholto and I were busy with ALE400 on 10136.0 , with good results most days between the west coast and Central Canada, as well as into the US mid-west. Haven't been listening on 20M much since the band has been very poor here, I think because of

Re: [digitalradio] ALE 400

2007-12-29 Thread Rick
Hi John and group, I have written these frequencies down on a card here in the shack so I can easily refer to them. They are quite different from the ALE400 frequencies that Bonnie invented, but to me are just as valid as long as we can agree on one spot frequency per band. One nice thing is

[digitalradio] ALE NOCALL ISSUE

2007-10-13 Thread Tony
All: Had to re-download PC-ALE and noticed NOCALL was being transmitted instead of my callsign. I entered my call during the set-up process, but NOCALL seems to be set as the default. I tried deleting, but keep getting the NOCALL in use message. Any suggestions.. Tony K2MO

Re: [digitalradio] ALE NOCALL ISSUE

2007-10-13 Thread David
Tony wrote: All: Had to re-download PC-ALE and noticed NOCALL was being transmitted instead of my callsign. I entered my call during the set-up process, but NOCALL seems to be set as the default. I tried deleting, but keep getting the NOCALL in use message. Any suggestions.. Tony K2MO

Re: [digitalradio] ALE NOCALL ISSUE

2007-10-13 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Guys, You need to either use an ASCII editor like NOTEPAD and use find and replace on NOCALL to change to your callsign and reload the .QRG file OR Select an unused SCAN GROUP where no OWN is being used and starting at the top menu selection Address Modify Own and select NOCALL from

Re: [digitalradio] ALE NOCALL ISSUE

2007-10-13 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Tony, this is common . PC-ALE has a weird way of entering in one's own call. I'll send you my unfinished guide that may help. On 10/13/07, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: Had to re-download PC-ALE and noticed NOCALL was being transmitted instead of my callsign. I entered my

Re: [digitalradio] ALE NOCALL ISSUE

2007-10-13 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Tony, this is common . PC-ALE has a weird way of entering in one's own call. I'll send you my unfinished guide that may help. On 10/13/07, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: Had to re-download PC-ALE and noticed NOCALL was being transmitted instead of my callsign. I entered my

[digitalradio] Ale

2007-10-03 Thread David Munn
Hi All...have been reading with some interest and some wondering about this program ALEi know it is written for Windows but im wondering if an attempt has been made to port it to Linuxyes there are a large number of Hams worldwide who operate with Linux in one form or another...ive been

Re: [digitalradio] ALE On The Air Week: 05-15 October

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Gee, Bonnie all that flying to Asia has stretched your definition of a week to 10 days in a week, I like it. I will be ALE active during the period and look to see some new callsigns on my screen. Andy K3UK Moderator Central Connecting a world of moderators . -- Andy K3UK

Re: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-03 Thread Rick
John, About the last person on earth that I would criticize for not operating would be Dave. I have no idea how he can do what he does with the creation and support for his DXLab suite of software which includes digital software as well. It is simply amazing. But even if any ham rarely

Re: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-03 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
I happened to see AA6YQ on the air on just last week on PSK31. I couldn't copy the other half but I believe the OM was asking him questions about dxlab. I was going to give a call but QSB set in. 73, Leigh/WA5ZNU On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 7:41 am, Rick KV9U wrote: About the last person on earth

Re: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-03 Thread Luc Fontaine
: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc. John, About the last person on earth that I would criticize for not operating would be Dave. I have no idea how he can do what he does with the creation and support for his DXLab suite of software

Re: [digitalradio] Ale

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi David, I know of no *nux based native application that has been offered to the world yet as ready for use. There is a package for developers that Charles Brain and another fellow placed on SourceForge under GNU called LinuxALE that dates back over 5 years now, which I have not seen anyone

RE: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-03 Thread John Bradley
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave AA6YQ Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:30 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Cc: Dave Bernstein AA6YQ Subject: RE: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc. First, John, I will point out that you have never provided a serious technical

[digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-02 Thread John Bradley
Allrighty, then! (climbing up on soapbox) I guess I am getting a little tired of these arguments about operating correctly. We all know the rules and most of us try to follow them. Sure, we screw up once in a while but so what? We learn for the next time. What bothers me more is that the

Re: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-02 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
John you forgot the Busy Channel Detection stuff. You should know that is the fix all for all QRM. John, W0JAB in the center of fly over country At 09:09 PM 10/2/2007, you wrote: Allrighty, then! (climbing up on soapbox) I guess I am getting a little tired of these arguments about

RE: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc.

2007-10-02 Thread Dave AA6YQ
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Bradley Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:09 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] ALE , J65, Pactor 1 thru ?, etc. Allrighty, then! (climbing up on soapbox) I guess I am getting a little tired of these arguments about operating

[digitalradio] ALE QRM

2007-10-01 Thread Rick
After the contact, I switched over to ALE 141A and listened for quite some time in unproto mode. Later on I heard an eastern station calling the HFN, which must be the HFLink Network. This can not be an automatic station as it was outside the automatic subband. I am not suggesting that it was

Re: [digitalradio] ALE QRM

2007-10-01 Thread Andrew O'Brien
PC-ALE , and I assume Multipsk ALE, is designed to work in attended mode for almost all applications other than two likely scenarios. 1. Soundings: This now referred to as station ID by the HFLINK web site (http://hflink.net/qso/). I think this is a fair description, since it simply sends the

Re: [digitalradio] ALE QRM

2007-10-01 Thread Rick
Andy has some very good points, If you are a human operator and listen on the frequency for a period of time, ideally at least a few minutes if you do not use QRL or a voice equivalent, and do not hear any other activity, you may be fairly safe in assuming the frequency is not in use. It is

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-30 Thread Robert Thompson
On 9/27/07, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my personal experience, JNOS first, and Linux in second place, have You probably mean Linux kernel-mode AX.25, since JNOS runs fine on Linux =) been a fairly good match to the radio channel characteristics for e-mail and web browsing over

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
Robert Thompson wrote: You probably mean Linux kernel-mode AX.25, since JNOS runs fine on Linux =) Yes, I meant EXACTLY that. Kernel AX.25 can be fooled to endless repeats by TFPCX and an inadequate computer (say, a 286 running some terminal ughh !!) That has been a factual case for

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
In my personal experience, JNOS first, and Linux in second place, have been a fairly good match to the radio channel characteristics for e-mail and web browsing over AX.25 packet radio. How is that? Well, JNOS has tweaked timers, or better stated, the ability of setting channel access

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-24 Thread Rick
It could be that either I am misreading the information, or the information is too old and was superseded by a change in the proposed 3G MIL-STD-188-141B Appendix C, messaging protocol. I am referring to one of E. Johnson's documents where he writes: The use of standard internet applications

RE: [digitalradio] ALE standards work fine Re: [hflink] ARQ FAE

2007-09-24 Thread Rud Merriam
Hi Steve, My first response to you may have been over the top because of others previous messages. My apologizes. I want to compare the ALE waveforms with other existing waveforms. This is difficult because the values reported by ALE do not conform to normal standards for digital communications.

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, That reference is to Government/Military HF e-mail topology which has evolved to the STANAG 5066 standard pretty much across the board, however not everyone is there yet due to costs and time to update their network infrastructures. STANAG 5066 can basically be thought of as what

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