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

2014-08-13 Thread Dan Edward Dba East edwards
alexey yes, i understand the thinking, re JT-9 / JT-65; best QSO you never heard as W4ZV said...  and, 'if i did not hear it with my ears, it does not exist, I can not work it, it doesn't count' also.. still, ARRL DXCC desk doesn't care what mode we use, right?  sowhat the heck? as jim,

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

2014-08-12 Thread Dan Edward Dba East edwards
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

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

2014-08-12 Thread 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

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

2014-08-12 Thread Brian D G3VGZ
Dan Edward Dba East edwards dan.n.edwa...@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

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

2014-08-12 Thread ALEXEY OGORODOV
Hello brethren, I´m ready to be crucified yet I couldn´t resist asking a question: What's the value of JT modes qso for a dxer? IMHO Digimodes undermine the value of low band dxing. I don't arfue over reliability of the modes and their help in extension of hamradio capabilities in general yet

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

2014-08-12 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/12/2014 8:00 AM, ALEXEY OGORODOV wrote: What's the value of JT modes qso for a dxer? There's far more to ham radio than making QSOs on CW (which I have been doing for 59 years). There's also station and antenna building, learning new techniques, interfacing computers to rigs, and so on.