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

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Hi Jorge
Hi Jorge
JT65 is no diferent from CW or SSB, more power is better...use no more  
than 50% of your amplifier power, if you have an extra fan use it on  
top of your amplifier..

Pedro - ct1ekd
 

Citando Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at gmail.com>:

> Hello
>
> so how much power to use in JT65 on 160 mts for DX ?
>
> 15-25 watts in OK on high bands, but how much pwr people are using on 160
> mts?
>
> thanks,
> Jorge
>
> 2015-09-12 14:51 GMT-03:00 Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>:
>> 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. Except for the Ukraine station, those
>> EU stations all had pretty good signals at your QTH, good enough that some
>> of the guys in W1/W2 should have copied them if they had decent ears.
>>
>> One of the issues with JT65 and JT9 is that many stations using it are
>> running QRP into wet strings, and they can't hear. A year or so ago, I ran
>> a sked with a guy in ND or SD running 20W or so. I copied him just fine,
>> but had to crank the amp to 400W to get him to hear me.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
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> Jorge
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