[SEDXC] '' K5D Band-plan ?''

[k4lms at bellsouth.net]

 Dave, 
Really appreciated  your comments..!  I think you would really like the BPSK31 once someone sits you down and explain a few things.   I use the MIXW ver 2.18.  At first it seemed complicated, but after getting used to it, much better now.. If just for BPSK31, Digapan is really great, and very simple..Whereas the MIXW program can do about 15 or more digital programs, and that is the reason why a little bit more complicated.. 
I called a CQ (BPSK31) the other day on 20 meters and I did not hear anyone coming back, but looking on the screen, 4Z4TI, Efran in Sheva, Israel was answering the CQ.. His report was 559 and my report was 599.. I was using ICOM 756 PRO 3 running 20-25 watts into an ''Off-Center Dipole..''  Like you said Dave, you don't hear them, but you see them printing across the screen!! Amazing..!!  Lookin' foward to working you Dave on the BPSK31 !! And I would love to hear some of your stories, when you and your dad was operating RTTY in 1965..This was a little off the subject line, but thanks agn..!! Also yesterday I received a ''SWL'' CARD, from Tournes, France who was listening into our conversation I was having with DK2CH in Germany.. ! I cherish the SWL cards more that a RARE DX card !! That made my day!!
Anything I could help you with, just ask..
73's
Mike - K4LMS   ''The Green Key Lifter''

  -------------- Original message from "David  Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>: --------------


> Don't worry.  The present 100 khz just was not big enough.  ON4UN tells me 
> that during the CQ WW SSB that SSB went from 7010 to 7100 and some
> such as 9A, UA etc operateed up to 7200.
> 
> John tells me that allowing 5 European stations per 3 khz that they can fill 
> up 7040 to 7120 completely with hundreds left out so they S&P.  Too bad we 
> could not get a band expansion to say 7400 or 7500
> with no BCI.   Oh well, ARRL just does not want to push that...they are 
> pushing 60 meter expansion (why??).   40 meters is the traditional ham band.
> 
> Have not been on RTTY since 1965 when my dad had a Model 15 which we put on 
> 15 to work Bill ZK1BS and CE3AD.  Don N4ZZ showed me a more current RTTY set 
> up where he had a screen full of callers and he selected the one he wanted. 
> I have tried PSK 31 and plan on getting back on that mode (BPSK 31) maybe 
> later this year.  Amazing to work stations that you can't hear by ear (at 
> times).
> 
> I have 355 entities with 333 current on 40 SSB.  First phone Dx QSOs in 1958 
> (AM back then).
> 73 Dave K4JRB 
> 
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