[VHFcontesting] The digital modes and the Sept contest

[winger55552001]

Do you use wsjt-x with this?


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From: Mark Spencer <mark at alignedsolutions.com> 
Date: 9/13/17  2:05 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: winger55552001 at yahoo.com 
Cc: VHF Contesting Reflector <vhfcontesting at contesting.com> 
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The digital modes and the Sept contest 

Sorry I just use a home Brew serial port to ptt, plus isolation transformer(s) for the audio scheme with my FT736.
73

Mark SVE7AFZ

Aligned Solutions Co.mark at alignedsolutions.com604 762 4099
On Sep 13, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Randy Wing <winger55552001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Has anyone used signalink with an FT-736?  I would like to use it but I have had problems getting it to work... I can go offline with you...
Randy, N0LD

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   On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Mark Spencer<mark at alignedsolutions.com> wrote:   Although 1.2 GHz may not be considered a microwave band, I have used JT65c on that band with success during a portable outing.

It allowed us to quickly complete a QSO that had defied several attempts  over a few hours with CW / SSB.   

73

Mark S
VE7AFZ

mark at alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

> On Sep 13, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Keith Morehouse <w9rm at calmesapartners.com> wrote:
> 
> Zack, I think JT65 or one of the JT9 modes would work very well on any
> microwave band as long as both ends were frequency stable.  If someone
> drifts, which is likely, I there would be problems.  Rapid fading or any
> kind of propagation distortion (multi-path, ect) might have a detrimental
> effect, depending on which digital mode you used.
> 
> Personally, I think JT65 is a proper and useful mode for microwaves.  One
> of the JT65 sub-modes was designed from the start for terrestrial microwave
> operation, not EME.
> 
> -W9RM
> 
> 
> Keith J Morehouse
> Managing Partner
> Calmesa Partners G.P.
> Olathe, CO
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My VHF operating is almost entirely portable. I like to go to local
>> hills (there are some around here!) I use a deep-cycle marine battery
>> as a power source. Except for very brief operations, running the
>> station and a computer from the battery runs it down too fast. So I
>> don't even bother taking a computer along. I log on paper and enter it
>> into the computer when I get home later.
>> 
>> So no digital modes for me on VHF. I wonder how well they work on
>> microwave frequencies, anyway. I hear stations now and then that don't
>> have phase-locked LO's and are way off the expected frequencies and
>> drift several kHz up and down as we work.
>> 
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Jim Worsham <w4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> Hello Kenny.  How is everything going?  Forget decades.  How about now!
>> I see this all the time now at work.  The millennials would rather IM or
>> email you than talk to you.  God help you if you actually show up in their
>> office for a face-to-face.  You quickly become the creepy old guy.  I am
>> not sure if that is what is driving your experiences with the use of
> 
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