On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:32:00 GMT, (Mark Zenier)
wrote:

Back a few years ago, ARRL's QEX newsletter printed some stuff about
government proposals for new radios that were the High Frequency
equivalent of a trunking radio system. These were frequency agile
highly automated radios that figured out for themselves how to
establish a connection on each end, no matter what the conditions.

Sounds like somebody was messing around with a prototype.

Yup. Today it's called ALE (Automatic Link Establishment) and it's all
over HF.

73 de John, KC2HMZ, KNY2VS
zIRC #monitor Group