Topband: 160M JT65HF, etc....

[Tree]

Okay everyone - take a big breath.  Nothing is going to get solved
here.  Please take this discussion (and others like it) off the
reflector.

Thanks.

Tree

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/2012 2:08 PM, n0ah.ham Paul Veal wrote:
>> I have a real problem with digital operators who ignore our presence near or around 1.838MHz and just blindly transmit where stations are listening.
>
> CW operators seem to be making a mountain out of mole hill on this
> issue. Here in northern Califorina, with Beverages in four directions, I
> NEVER hear anything but SSB above 1835 except during contests, and
> you're not going to hear JT65 folks trying to compete with us during a
> contest.
>
> Indeed, it has been my experience that it is we CW and SSB operators,
> whether contesters or DXers, who ignore the presence of those using
> digital modes before we dump our pileups and contesting opeations onto
> their long recognized frequencies. Most guys running JT65 are decent CW
> operators, and even those who are not can at least recognize CW when
> they hear it. But how many CW and SSB ops recognize PSK31, JT65, FSK441,
> or ISCAT when they hear it?
>
> JT65 occupies about 200 Hz bandwidth, and it's not at all uncommon for
> there to be a half dozen QSOs going on in the 2.5kHz bandwidth
> associated with a SSB rig running those modes. And believe me, if you're
> running those modes, you are listening to what your sound card is trying
> to decode, and you know for sure when a CW or SSB station is in that
> passband.
>
> As to JT65 moving -- as N2JDQ noted, there's been a lot of JT65 activity
> on160M for quite a while, most or all of it between 1838 and 1840, and
> most of us have been completely unaware of it.  I certainly was until
> three days ago, and I've been active enough on 160M since moving to W6
> six years ago that I've worked 120 countries from here on 160M and won
> multiple contests for my ARRL section on both CW and SSB.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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