Congratulations on your first post! (Although "It really is very simple" does sound vaguely familiar...)
I'd love to hear QF1 on the Area frequency, but haven't had much luck in the last few decades. Have the crew of QF1 and other RPT aircraft been complaining about your transmissions on Area?
If the Area frequency at 'low level' around your ALA is the same frequency as being used by QF1 at FL340, there's not much traffic around.