Montana's Ham Radio Forum

ARRL put out a bulletin about the 5MHZ interoperability test taking place 27 March - 07 April 2014. I looked over the State DES Kenwood TK-90's with built in Automatic Link Establishment (ALE). I did not set up the ALE as the radios are all programed up for MARS. I will chat with the state MARS director Ed Nesselrod K6EN and maybe we can setup the ALE.

So I visited with Dan Hawkins N7SHM who is running PCALE and ALESTAT software to get the insite on who what when and where. Thanks Dan for showing me your setup and participating in the interoperability test. I came home and got it setup today 02 March in the receive mode. PCALE copies the data from a HF Radio through a soundcard interfance and passes it off to ALESTAT which sends it via the internet to HFLINK Headquarters for display on their web page. http://hflink.com/ is the main page and if you go to the ALE COM CENTER you can monitor live traffic, live mapupdates, or chat with other ALE operators.

I posted a screen shot of my station as I relayed in one of the government agencies 050NHQCAP on the 5MHZ band who is participating in the interoperability exercise. http://www.k7mt.com I will keep my station operational to the end of the test and get my transmit working.

Take a look and see if there is any interest as it is just another part of the Amateur Radio Hobby. This is the wonderful thing about this hobby as it has many different areas for one to enjoy.

Cheers Bill K7MT

Howdy gang - ALE interoperability test ends today and I sure learned a lot over the last 10 days. This morning I heard a VK4EA on 20 meters and that is longest path i received. Alaska was coming in great yesterday on three bands.

Just another part of the amateur hobby that I enjoyed participating in and meeting some great folks on the ALE Chat room. Most important was that it was fun and a great learning experience.. Woo Hoo !!!

I am removing the ALE screen shot from my web page this evening..

Cheers Bill K7MT
http://www.k7mt.com