Let me applaud David for his post. This in informative - relevant to 160 meters and does not get into the emotional area that I was trying to "nip in the bud" with my previous post. It should be noted that some people took offense at my position and even at least one unsubscribed from this list because he perceived we were not interesting in talking about 21st century modes. I think they misunderstood my request.
There is a difference between messages like the one below and the ones I was trying to prevent a flood of. We are here to exchange technical information and encourage activity. We are not here to convert everyone to our own view on the relative value of different ways of operating. While this message isn't for everyone - it falls into the same category as a message that might be specific to phased beverages - which is of little interest to someone on a city lot. Use the delete key. Happy New Year to all topband operators. Tree N6TR piss: If you have not already - now is a perfect time to send in your Stew Perry log!!! thanks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Michael Gaytko // WD4KPD <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM Subject: Topband: 160M JT65HF To: [email protected] almost every night and especially on weekends/holidays, there is alot of activity on 1838/usb. some qrm from psk/other but they usually are far enough from the center freq not to be a problem (not always, the jt program only shows +/-1kc on the waterfall. do wish they would give at least .500kc guard band) there is a little activity down around 1810 where the jt65hf got started, but since ARRL proposes that area for cw, 99% of activity is on the 1838kc freq. here in NC with a hytower vert, i have 47 for WAS and EU shows up well late in eve. 80m is quite similar, but much better to EU in the eve (48 for WAS), and some Grey Line. come on down and enjoy ! david/wd4kpd ps....any grey-line dx skeds welcome on 80/160. really need AK/HI -- God's law is set in stone...everything else is negotiable. _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
