[MilCom] ALE Monitoring Procedure?

[WD8ARZ]

As Larry has said, PCALE will allow single frequency none scanning copy of 
ALE transmissions just as long as a basic audio feed from the receiver to 
your computer is connected up. Larry also referred to the site 
http://hflink.com/beta/  .  There is a lot of info about ham radio ALE 
activity from the basic site of http://hflink.com/ too. Would recommend that 
you use an appropriate serial cable to enhance the operation of PCALE so you 
can scan. Dont over drive the audio into the computer, and turn off your 
computer sound options. Started out with this software for ALE more than 15 
years ago, so it is reasonably stable to use.

Issues with running PCALE is generally due to computer hardware, software 
and configuration issues. Can contribute to some basic information about how 
to improve this concern for the general user if needed.

If you wish to get an amateur radio license, there is also software that 
will interface with PCALE and report its amateur radio band heard ale 
signals to the hflink site listed below.

If you want to see real time information about amateur radio signals running 
a version of PCALE or MarsAle on the shortwave bands, check out the 
http://hflink.net site.

If you need help with configuration of PCALE, check out this Yahoo Reflector 
site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ALEradio/
It isnt that active, but does generally get a response to user questions as 
they come up. Be patient .....

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ
HFN Pilot Station for world wide shortwave ALE EmComm support activities.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken" <rfinder1 at verizon.net>
To: "Larry Van Horn" <n5fpw at brmemc.net>; "milcom" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] ALE Monitoring Procedure?
>

> Hello Larry & the group
> The Yaesu FRG-100 does not have a serial port on the equipment.  It only 
> has
> phone out on the back and on the front, a "CAT jack" and a few others.  I
> noted when I have it connected to my sound card via the microphone jack on
> the computer that PC-ALE does in fact hear the receiver because the 
> display
> shows that.  HOWEVER, I haven't yet come across any ALE sounds to see if 
> it
> will get decoded or not.
> OR maybe if the serial port is needed I'm out of luck on using this
> software!
>
> Ken