Okay everyone - take a big breath. Nothing is going to get solved here. Please take this discussion (and others like it) off the reflector.
Thanks. Tree On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/2/2012 2:08 PM, n0ah.ham Paul Veal wrote: >> I have a real problem with digital operators who ignore our presence near or >> around 1.838MHz and just blindly transmit where stations are listening. > > CW operators seem to be making a mountain out of mole hill on this > issue. Here in northern Califorina, with Beverages in four directions, I > NEVER hear anything but SSB above 1835 except during contests, and > you're not going to hear JT65 folks trying to compete with us during a > contest. > > Indeed, it has been my experience that it is we CW and SSB operators, > whether contesters or DXers, who ignore the presence of those using > digital modes before we dump our pileups and contesting opeations onto > their long recognized frequencies. Most guys running JT65 are decent CW > operators, and even those who are not can at least recognize CW when > they hear it. But how many CW and SSB ops recognize PSK31, JT65, FSK441, > or ISCAT when they hear it? > > JT65 occupies about 200 Hz bandwidth, and it's not at all uncommon for > there to be a half dozen QSOs going on in the 2.5kHz bandwidth > associated with a SSB rig running those modes. And believe me, if you're > running those modes, you are listening to what your sound card is trying > to decode, and you know for sure when a CW or SSB station is in that > passband. > > As to JT65 moving -- as N2JDQ noted, there's been a lot of JT65 activity > on160M for quite a while, most or all of it between 1838 and 1840, and > most of us have been completely unaware of it. I certainly was until > three days ago, and I've been active enough on 160M since moving to W6 > six years ago that I've worked 120 countries from here on 160M and won > multiple contests for my ARRL section on both CW and SSB. > > 73, Jim K9YC > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
