HF Digital Messaging - Emergency / Disaster Relief - Interoperative Communications - Ham Radio
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Global ALE High Frequency Network Celebrates Continuous 24/7/365 All Band HF Digital Service |
| On the 26th of June 2007, HFN, the ham radio Global ALE High Frequency
Network was born. It has been alive and on the air ever since. This is
the first time a ham radio net has ever functioned continuously on all
8 major HF bands simultaneously 24/7/365. The main purpose is Emergency / Relief Communications, and the focus is to provide a framework to help the various Emcomm and relief organisations of the world inter-operate better with each other on HF. All ham operators are welcome and invited to participate in the net on the air at any hour of the day or night, for normal QSOs and messages, soundings, or priority Emcomm use. HFN has grown to many stations now, and is expanding to cover far-flung areas of the planet. Congratulations to all the HFN Pilot Ops who make it an ongoing success: Alan KM4BA, Steve N2CKH, Rod WA3MEZ, Dale NJ7C, Dennis W5DG, Bill WD8ARZ, Gary K7EK, Luc VE2FXL, Peter VK4EA, Mark N0PWZ, Dan VR2HF, Ken WB4AKK, Johan SM0TSC, Vincent F4BXW, and Berndt VK5ABN. |
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ALE On The Air Week
AOTAW |
| ALE On The Air Week (AOTAW) is an annual international amateur radio event sponsored by HFLINK.
All hams are invited to participate in
10 days of HF Automatic Link Establishment activity on the air. The
purpose of the event is to encourage ALE communication techniques among
amateur radio operators worldwide. Operator
experience in this
readiness exercise is useful for HF Emergency / Disaster Relief
communications. AOTAW
is an open informal operating event for hams to check out their ALE
communications equipment, get real-world experience initiating and
responding to ALE calls, link up with fellow ALE operators for for text
or voice QSOs on HF, and share helpful information about setting up ALE
stations. Thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide have ALE-capable stations, and many were active in last year's AOTAW event. Visit the ALE High Frequency Network's ALE Channel ZERO web site for up-to-the-minute activity loggings of all the ALE signals as they are received at the various stations around the world during the event. |
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IARU
GlobalSET EmComm Radio Events ALE operators participate in Global Simulated Emergency Test communications exercises sponsored by International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) |
| GlobalSET is the on-the-air international emcomm
radio event sponsored by IARU.
The objective is to promote readiness for
international emergency disaster relief communications. Operators
participate in the Global Simulated Emergency Test by sending text
messages
to the central IARU GlobalSET headquarters, relayed via amateur radio stations. Hams may
activate their ALE stations, start scanning and sounding before the event, and send messages during the day of the event. For more information, please read the details on the HFlink forum. GlobalSET Objectives: 1. Increase the common interest in emergency communications. 2. Test how usable the IARU Emergency Center of Activity frequencies are across ITU regions. 3. Create practices for international emergency communication. 4. Practice the relaying of messages using all modes. |
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 ALE for Emergency / Disaster Relief Communications Presentation at the IARU Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference |
| The International Amateur Radio Union's Global Amateur
Radio Emergency Communications Conference GAREC-2007 was held in
Huntsville AL, USA, with international delegates from IARU Region 1 and
Region 2 attending. The focus of the GAREC conference was: How
the amateur radio service can apply advanced technologies to emergency
communications in the service of early warning, emergency response and
disaster relief. The ALE presentation at the conference included information about how ALE can provide an
interoperative method for all emergency and disaster relief
communicators to communicate with each other. more... A conference report for HFLINK members is available on the HFLINK forum. |
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 | HFLINK Comments to ARRL on New Data Communication Protocols |
| HFLINK responded to ARRL's announcement seeking comments from amateurs concerning development of an
open-source, non-proprietary, data communications protocol suitable for
use by radio amateurs over HF fading paths. The topic was discussed at length in the HFLINK Forum. more... |
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Ham Radio ALE activity is automatically reported and spotted on ALE Channel Zero, as it is received in real time
by the network of Global HFN Pilot Stations around the world.
ALE Channel ZERO includes a Chat window to talk with other ALE operators, announce and find skeds, send messages, get help and advice with set up, support, and testing of ALE software, hardware, and antennas.
Try it... you will like it... ALE Channel ZERO.
Whenever you transmit an ALE call or sounding on the air, it is picked up by ALE Channel ZERO reporting stations, and displayed in real time on the web.
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High Frequency Network
The services currently provided by Global ALE HFN stations using Automatic
Link Establishment, include: HF SMS Phone Texting, Text HF Email messaging,
real-time-activity tracking,
HF-to-HF Relay, Net Call ups, Net
announcements, and individual station direct HF calling. Real-time
reporting of who is on the air and able to communicate with each other,
is tracked by the global network of stations through ALE Channel Zero on the web.
 A team of radio operators is on the air, in the global constellation of
ALE HF stations, the new ham radio ALE Global HF Network (HFN). The new HFN Pilot
Stations are equipped with scanning ALE transceivers, multiband antenna
systems, and special software control systems for internet connectivity. Ham radio ALE users in
the field on HF connect with the HFN Pilot Stations to exchange digital
ALE-SMS text messaging to and from internet devices such as cell mobile
phones, black berry type devices, PDAs, PCs and laptops. ALE users also
relay ALE messages to other ALE HF users via the same system. more...
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