ARLA/CLUSTER: Fw: [hflink] HFIE 2014 HF Interoperability Exercise 27March-07April

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     HF Interoperability Exercise
      Starts: 27 March 2014
      Ends: 7 April 2014

     
      International ham radio HF Interoperability Exercise sponsored by HFLINK and HFN. 
      Ham operators are invited to participate at any time during the 10 days of this free and open informal exercise. 
      Operators can look forward tocertificates and wallet cardsshowing they are qualified in ALE. They will continue to keep track of each other on the air and by using an inter-connected chat room with a map feature that picks up their transmissions.

      Non-governmental and government organizations worldwide use ALE for HF interoperability communications. This Interoperability Exercise covers standard ALE (Automatic Link Establishment), NALE (Non-Automatic Link Establishment), and SELCALL (HF Selective Calling).  

      Operators get real-world experience and become proficient in HF Interoperability communications. They initiate and respond to ALE calls, link up with fellow operators for text or SSB voice QSOs on HF, and share helpful information about setting up ALE stations. It's not a contest, and many just do it for fun. 

      Join the thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide with ALE-capable stations. Participants discuss, learn, and ask questions using the HFN ALE COMM CENTRE chat room. 

      HF Interoperability Exercise 2014
      2014 HF Interoperability Exercise
      Starts:1200 UTC 27 March 2014
      Ends: 2359 UTC 07 April 2014

      Previous HF Interoperability Exercises
      2013 HF Interoperability Exercise
      2012 HF Interoperability Exercise
      August 2011 AOTAW
      May 2009 GlobalSET
      Novermber 2008 AOTAW
      March 2007 AOTAW
      October 2006 AOTAW

            HF Interoperability Exercise
           
            If you tuned into your shortwave radio in October 2013, you may have heard a gobble-gobble noise. What may seem like a flock of wild turkeys were actually the sounds of the HF Interoperability Exercise, and it was in full swing. It started Friday the 4th of October, and ran for 10 days. Ham operators all over the world were on the air for this international communications preparedness exercise, using Automatic Link Establishment (ALE). The innovative ALE system is a digital selective calling method, enabling radio users to ring each other up on High Frequency shortwave using their callsigns like a phone number. HFIE, as it is known among hams, happens several times per year and is sponsored by HFLINK.COM and the Global ALE High Frequency Network (HFN) organization.

            Kurt Stephens KJ4AYT, a radio operator in Florida, had this to say: "I use ALE a lot, both in my professional career and as a ham. I'm really excited to be participating in HFIE. Within the first hour, I was able to easily get signals to three different continents with my Micom 2 radio. I recently designed a new antenna for my station and I'm checking the performance of it in this exercise. I call it the WOLF antenna. It has good broadband SWR on all the HF bands, perfect for ALE. I look forward to making lots of new contacts with it."



            Another ham, John Lawson W4JML, commented, "I'm in Wyoming and I need to use ALE with Army MARS, so I decided to get some more experience with it during this exercise on the ham bands. I downloaded the free PCALE software and hooked the computer up to my Icom IC-765, running into an 80m delta loop antenna. Amazingly, within a few minutes after setting it up to scan, I made my first ALE contact when Kurt KJ4AYT called me on 7 megahertz, and did some texting. I'll be on this again tomorrow for sure."



            Over three thousand ALE stations have registered so far, and many of them are on-the-air this week talking by single sideband (SSB) analog voice or digital texting. Some use the exercise to provide training or maintain their proficiency in HF Interoperability; an important issue these days, due to the new digital standards for governmental and non-governmental organizations in emergency and disaster communications. 
            The distinctive turkey gobble sounds of ALE can usually be found on the following frequencies.

           
     


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