[RTTY] FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... (JT65/JT9)

[Stanley Zawrotny]

"Is there a good digital band plan?" A band plan is a "Gentlemen's Agreement" because no one owns a frequency. Therefore when a gentleman knows that a frequency is the watering hole for JT65, the gentleman goes somewhere else to drink, to paraphrase the DX Code of Conduct.

BTW, do we really want someone to impose a band plan on us? Or do we want to be good amateur radio citizens and voluntarily follow a traditional one without griping at one another? Observe the wild animals of the jungle. They continue to survive because they each stay out of the other's watering holes.

Stan, K4SBZ

"Real radio bounces off the sky."

> On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Peter Laws <plaws at plaws.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> modes. Thankfully, everyone continues to respect the PSK31 folks, but the JT65 people, with their one frequency, are now the enemy? Whatever happened to the DX Code of Conduct? Or is getting that last few points more important than "Respecting my fellow hams and conducting myself
> 
> I "respect" the PSK31 folks because I can see their traces and hear
> them if I listen closely (wasn't always the case for me!  Not RFI
> after all!).  Likewise for that calliope mode (MFSK?).  That actually
> looks kind of cool on the waterfall and if I ever get my RF-on-audio
> issues fixed with my DigiKeyer, I should probably try it.
> 
> It's impossible, in many cases, to do the same with Joe Taylor's stuff
> (something else I want to try!).  I wouldn't know where they hang out
> ... and if I was at that spot, didn't hear anything, and sent QRL?
> several times with no reply, I would not be violating any codes that I
> know of.
> 
> Speaking of "whatever happened to ..." ... is there a good digital
> band-plan?  I tend not to use the one from the ARRL as it is often
> out-of-date and/or optimistic.  ;-)
>