[RTTY] Fw: ALE Sounding. What is it and how does it work?

[Swiger, (N8NOE) Jeffrey]

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..

Now, I'm not a Fan of ALE but could see uses for it, I just think
it's drawbacks are overwhelming to be of REAL use..
My 2¢ worth!..

Jeff, N8NOE
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On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Doug Hall wrote:

> 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 soundings are NOT simply station IDs. They are sent so that other
> scanning ALE stations can keep track of who all they can hear at any
> given time. Replies are not received from these soundings. So
> essentially they constitute propagation beacons. They are indeed
> one-way transmissions.
>
> 73,
> Doug, K4DSP
>
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