I'm one of "those guys". I operated JT65-HF and JT9 for a couple years
with my oldest K2 (SN 567), including half a dozen contacts with K1JT
hisself. First time ever working a guy on a mode he invented. hi.
It's a very interesting mode, but limited fun for a 60 year veteran of
CW mostly interested in ragchewing and county hunting. My primary
activity in ham radio these days is homebrewing left-handed bugs. They
work fine for the original digital mode, but don't adapt easily to the
newfangled ones.
I actually do tune 14.076 as a quick check on propagation because there
is so much activity. If there are signals there, I'm fairly sure I can
be heard on CW if anybody is listening.
Operating digital modes (WSJT and PSK) is the only time my K2 has ever
been on SSB. I've used it barefoot, with an HF Packer amp and with the
KPA100. It does a great job on these modes.
Eric KE6US
On 7/22/2016 10:24 AM, Sid Frissell wrote:
You "20 meters is dead all day" guys need to check out WSJT-X (JT-9 and JT-65).
At least here in MT 14076 is busy every day all day! You can find many US and
VE stations plus a very good mix of DX. I have only been on this mode since
late in 2014 (been a ham since 1950) and I have worked over 100 DX entities.
{I started over when I took up digital. New ones are still popping up. Plenty
of QSO's. No rag-chewing of course !!! Also, my DX spotter in DXLabd seems to
keep rolling out spots all day--many on 20, both SSB and cw. Try 14076.
I call it "Mouse-click Radio" as thats all you have to do. At least you will
hear (see?) activity.
73, Sid. NZ7M
Sent From Sid Frissell's iPad
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