Happy New Year to all Jim, I'd love to have you as a neighbor. You know how to set up a station for best performance. I had experience with some stations in my area that wants to get long DX increasing power without knowing how to do it. I was able to hear the guy on several different frequencies and plenty of phase noise. Digital modes using AF can be very noisy if you don't know what you are doing. I have a DDR SDR and I can see the noise across the band on the water fall associated with the shift on the digital signal.
Why not allocate digital mode above 1900 KHz? I know JT65, FSK441, etc. very well. I was very active on MS on 2 and 6m when we transitioned from fast speed cw to JT modes 10 years ago. Also I did EME CW and some JT65 on 144 MHz. Regards Jose Carlos N4IS _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
