Topband: 160M JT65HF

Rik van Riel riel at surriel.com
Fri Dec 30 14:23:17 PST 2011


On 12/30/2011 04:14 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 9:14 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>> Most JT65 activity is relatively low power - typically between 10 and
>> 50 watts on HF.
>
> Yes, but if I were trying to work a difficult path like EU on 160M from
> here in W6, I would be running as much power as I thought my power amp
> could safely handle for the 50 second keydown cycle -- (probably about
> 500W).
>
> Thor's very informative post about the far more limited spectrum on 160M
> in his country was also quite helpful, and it helped a lot in
> understanding his concerns.

Agreed.

I believe it would be a polite thing for all the digital ops
to happen around 1838, so as to not cause interference to the
CW ops lower in the band.

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