Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

[Jim Brown]

On 3/18/2012 2:01 PM, James Rodenkirch wrote:
> Sounds like you and others might not be so keen on burying your ears in noise just to work a QRP puke like me, 'eh?

I'm not keen on listening for hours and hours with no activity.  I have 
recently taken up a new challenge -- working JT65A on 160M. There's JT65 
activity almost every night at a dial frequency of 1838 kHz, which puts 
signals between about 1838.5 and 1840.5. The bandwidth of a signal is 
about 200 Hz, and stations spread out in that 2kHz bandwidth.  It's not 
uncommon for me to decode five or six signals in that bandwidth when the 
band is hopping. The last couple of nights ZR1ADI has been on, and I 
heard a W1 work him.  I heard him one of those nights and called him 
several times.

JT65 is pretty easy to use with W6CQZ's JT65-HF software. The interface 
is just like RTTY AFSK or PSK, and W6CQZ maintains a reverse beacon 
server that you can set his software to send spots for everything you 
hear.   If I call CQ around 0500Z or later I'll usually see between 
three and six spots of my signal from the east coast on every transmission.

73, Jim K9YC  CM87