

At last count there were 158 active Radio Type selections, which support 25 manufacturers of 196 known transceivers models, 85 known receiver models and 6 known models of exciters.

A RADIO TYPE MATRIX is provided herein which details all Radio Type selections supported by PC-ALE beginning with radio type NONE where the radio is not under PC control and supports single channel ALE operation only, through each selection for specific make/model CAT HF SSB transceivers and receivers that are supported for full ALE operation. An 800Mhz CPU and AC 97 Sound Device and at least one RS-232 serial port are required. There may be issues under Vista and Windows 7 if the software is installed to the default C:\Program Files\PC-ALE\ sub directory due to Anti- Virus/Malware protection features with these newer versions of Windows.

PC-ALE runs on Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (where in Windows 7 you MUST be logged in as Administrator when installing and where it is best to change the properties of the ALE.EXE to run as XP/SP2). 1 DRAFT PC-ALE Radio Control Knowledge Base by N2CKH 23 OCTOBER 2010 OVERVIEW - This document details various aspects of configuration of PC-ALE v1.073a with its main focus being CAT Radio Control support to include PTT and MUTING methods via either CAT or RS-232 signaling lines.
