Now we come to the hard facts of life.
We are clearly in a new deployment mode.
More stations are needed if the AF MARS or other MARS and SHARES ALE networks are going to be of any value.
Then again, this is not completely a plug and play exercise, unless you have the capability to buy a whole new radio and PC setup so you can run MARS-ALE. Hopefully, many will find that their existing equipment can do the job. Then it is a question of doing the work to come up the learning curve and participate in this new mode of MARS.