JT65 certainly levels the playing field as far as us low power goof balls are
concerned - I, personally, dislike the digital modes, for now....when I can't
"work' with CW any longer I might cave in and give one of those modes a try...
Great discussion on power and low power and QRP power and the affects Top Band
have on 'em all - appreciate the various views and discussions. 72 to all, Jim
R. K9JWV
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:14:26 -0700
> From: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!
>
> On 3/18/2012 2:01 PM, James Rodenkirch wrote:
> > Sounds like you and others might not be so keen on burying your ears in
> > noise just to work a QRP puke like me, 'eh?
>
> I'm not keen on listening for hours and hours with no activity. I have
> recently taken up a new challenge -- working JT65A on 160M. There's JT65
> activity almost every night at a dial frequency of 1838 kHz, which puts
> signals between about 1838.5 and 1840.5. The bandwidth of a signal is
> about 200 Hz, and stations spread out in that 2kHz bandwidth. It's not
> uncommon for me to decode five or six signals in that bandwidth when the
> band is hopping. The last couple of nights ZR1ADI has been on, and I
> heard a W1 work him. I heard him one of those nights and called him
> several times.
>
> JT65 is pretty easy to use with W6CQZ's JT65-HF software. The interface
> is just like RTTY AFSK or PSK, and W6CQZ maintains a reverse beacon
> server that you can set his software to send spots for everything you
> hear. If I call CQ around 0500Z or later I'll usually see between
> three and six spots of my signal from the east coast on every transmission.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC CM87
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