On 6/11/2012 1:02 PM, Mike Waters wrote: > On another subject, you may be able to hear RI1ANF (South Shetland Islands) > after dark. I've heard him to the SSE the past two nights on 1826.5 through > the lightning QRN. K3JJG in PA was copying him better than I was.
This would be a great application for JT65A, which could allow many NA stations to work him. The traditional way to call someone on JT65A is to zero-beat them on the waterfall. The better way to call a DX station is to NOT zero beat them, but rather to spread out like a split pileup. Since the window is about 2.7 kHz wide, a JT65 signal is about 220 Hz wide, and signals can be decoded with some overlap, at least a dozen signals can simultaneously call and be decoded. JT65A activity on 160M is from about 1838.5 - 1841.2, transmitting by feeding a USB transmitter with a carrier of 1838 kHz. The software of choice is JT65-HF. It is freeware, well documented in a pdf, and very easy to use. A QSO typically takes 5-6 minutes to complete. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
