His first response was just a quote of 97.111(b), which I am quite familiar with (permitted one-way transmissions). I wrote back that I was really looking for an authoritative opinion on whether ALE
Have to disagree with you on the soundings, Andy... re-read Bonnie's explanation of what soundings are and how they work: her very first point says "... ALE sounding is simply a station ID. No other
Having designed ALE systems over 20 years ago and having been involved in the early testing and deployment FED-STD-1045 ALE systems on commercial HF circuits I have a bit of experience here. The soun
I Think We all need to Remember, BONNIE is Always Right... Once we have that were good.. I Also know some others involved in ALE and have pushed me to try it. NO MAC support and I own 1 PC Notebook..
Well, I guess I have to say something re: ALE. It seems very odd that so many do not know or understand what ALE is and what it is for. I am also surprised that one of the many Hams that are also MAR
You may soon see a big change in the way ALE is done on the ham bands, or its disappearance altoghether... Riley's initial response to my inquiry is that he feels I am correct on all counts. He has f
This entire issue simply shows that any protocol which includes automatic transmission (beaconing, sounding, etc.) or which can autonomously reply to remote interrogation should be required to contai
If sounding is disallowed it won't really change things much. The loss of LQA info is not critical to the network. Stations will merely revert to scanning without sounding, no big deal actually. 73,