Topband: Digital on 160m?

[Jim Brown]

On 12/29/2011 9:48 AM, Thorvaldur Stefansson wrote:
> Lew, W7EW/W7AT said it best: "The language of 160 Meters is CW".

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.  While I haven't tried JT65 on 
160 yet, I would like to do so.  I've had considerable success working 
difficult paths with JT65 on 6M and on some of he HF bands. The path 
between the San Francisco bay area and Europe (over the pole) is a very 
difficult one, and typically open enough to support CW contacts only a 
dozen or so night a year, and then only for a short period. I have yet 
to hear anything from EU this season. The 160M band is 200 kHz wide, and 
even with four Beverages, I rarely hear more than 3-4 signals at any 
given time except during contests.

Most JT65 contacts are pre-arranged schedules.

  http://www.on4kst.com/chat/start.php

The easiest to use software is this one   http://jt65-hf.sourceforge.net/

It works with the same audio cables to and from a computer sound card 
that would be used for RTTY or PSK, and is quite user friendly.

73, Jim K9YC