Topband: anybody in Eu using JT-9 or JT-65

[Tim Shoppa]

There's the band, and then there's folks using the band. Both have to line
up!

Important thing is that it is winter in VK :-). So more likely for VK's to
be on topband than for EU's.

I don't do JT-65 but below I share some of my experience with CW this
summer on 160M:

Just in the past week I have been able to hear intermittent EU 160M CW
activity as I clean up my K9AY loop.

In the Summer Stew, I worked one EU, which is kinda the best case I had
hoped for. I was surprised when I went back this morning to look at the
reversebeacon reports for the summer stew... for a bit I was getting
spotted on 160M on several places in Europe. I notice that NO3M who was
also very active in Summer Stew was getting spotted too but not at exact
same times:

> grep N3QE 20140622.csv | grep 160m | grep EU
DR1A,DL,EU,1823.3,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,10,2014-06-22 01:40:23,21,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.3,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,6,2014-06-22 01:40:36,21,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,7,2014-06-22 01:45:19,22,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,9,2014-06-22 01:57:52,21,CW
DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,23,2014-06-22 02:02:35,24,CW
DL1EMY,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,26,2014-06-22 02:03:20,24,CW
DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,14,2014-06-22 02:12:56,23,CW
DL1EMY,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,17,2014-06-22 02:13:10,23,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,6,2014-06-22 02:16:48,24,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,7,2014-06-22 02:23:54,24,CW
DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,4,2014-06-22 02:25:52,24,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,7,2014-06-22 02:34:00,24,CW
DL1EMY,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,3,2014-06-22 02:34:17,24,CW
DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,8,2014-06-22 02:36:48,20,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,6,2014-06-22 02:44:11,22,CW

> grep NO3M 20140622.csv | grep 160m | grep EU
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,10,2014-06-22 03:33:30,29,CW
EI6IZ,EI,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,10,2014-06-22 03:33:43,29,CW
GW8IZR,GW,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,25,2014-06-22 03:45:06,29,CW
EI6IZ,EI,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,21,2014-06-22 03:48:16,28,CW

Tim N3QE




On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Dan Edward Dba East edwards <
dan.n.edwards at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> greetings
>
> to pass the time through the summer doldrums, I've been playing with weak
>  signal digi-modes.  Near sunrise, am having fair luck to VK, w jt-65...
>  VK3XQ comes through almost every day..
>
> but, at Eu sunrise, my cq's go un-answered, even with kw power.  Is the
> band
>  really THAT bad to Eu, still?
>
> from a noisy suburban location, WSJT-x seems to help...
>
> 73, W5XZ, Dan
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