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 away
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
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.
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 w