Topband: Digital on 160m?

[James Rodenkirch]

The K3UK schedule website has quite a few "check ins" that are clamoring to work JT65 on 160 meters - so another "source" for info on JT65...just go to the K3UK web site and hang around for a while, evenings and morning seem best --- you'll see hams lookin' for JT65 QSOs (mostly to work new states for WAS) and just start asking them questions...they'll be helpful plus get some Qs going with ya!
 


> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:48:14 -0800
> From: jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Digital on 160m?
> 
> 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
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