Topband: Sept 12 JT65 on 1838khz...nice opening to Eu.

[Mike Waters]

Thanks, Jim. Maybe I'll stick with WSPR, at least for awhile. Per the Sept.
10 thread about VK2KRR, there seems to be some 160m activity on that mode.

I've enjoyed WSPR in the past, but the Linux version of the software I was
using at the time would crash at odd intervals. Hopefully, downloading the
latest version will solve that.

I do have a good sound card. It's an older Creative Labs PCI card, but it's
proven to be as good as they get for digging the weakest signals out of the
noise.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:

> On Sat,9/12/2015 7:33 AM, Mike Waters wrote:
>
>> How much of this was JT9? Is it ALL JT65?
>>
>
> It's all JT65.
>
> Notice all the CQs going unanswered. ... many stations using it are
> running QRP into wet strings, and they can't hear.
> ... The quality of the A/D converter also matters a lot. A good outboard
> sound card will decode 10-12 dB further down into the noise than the sound
> cards built into most computers.
>