[600MRG] Last night at WD2XSH/20

[Neil Klagge]

John, I read the link on WSQ that Paul sent me. I am thinking I would
prefer WSQ2 to JT9 since it is not a "canned" exchange. I can deal with 5
wpm if I can get thru at -25 dBn. I am amazed that WSQ can do that.

Just thinkin' out loud.... ( 2 cents...)

Neil


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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:50 AM, John Langridge <jlangridge at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Rudy,
>
> Obviously Fritz is the final word on the matter but JT9 *should* be ok for
> XSH guys... its nothing more than FSK, like WSPR, slightly wider but not
> outside of your legal bounds based on what it listed on 500kc.com.
> Perhaps Fritz can weigh in on that and maybe you will be able to get on.
>
> I had a short exchange with Paul, W0RW, today about WSQ.  It may be slow
> as Christmas, but for the use of JT9-like exchanges with considerably
> deeper detection limit, it might work great.  For conversations, its the
> pits, due to speed.  Anyway, I may play with this some.  Like JT9 and WSPR,
> it is also FSK and should fit within the XSH confine.
>
> 73 and heres hope for more great condx!
>
> John XIQ
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Rudy Severns <n6lf at epud.net>
> To: 600MRG <600mrg at w7ekb.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 12:41 PM
> Subject: [600MRG] Last night at WD2XSH/20
>
>
> Thanks everyone for the reports.  Getting into ME is a real surprise!!  My
> ground conductivity is way down this time of year so I would have thought
> my
> signal would be down since I'm not running any more power than usual.  This
> morning I had to dig a deep hole for the base of my 160m vertical and found
> the soil bone dry and hard as concrete two feet or more down!  I'm making
> progress here on HF antennas so have had some time to get back on MF.  Will
> try to be on most nights.
>
> The WSPR tests have shown the band has possibilities we never suspected, or
> at least I never expected.  Summer propagation may be very up and down but
> it's far from dead.  This winter I'll want to work hard on CW QSO's.  I
> wish
> the XSH license would allow JT9 and JT65 but it doesn't.  I think these
> would be very interesting.  Even though I can't transmit these modes I
> certainly can listen, decode and report so I hope you guys will give those
> modes a shot.  I tuned in to Ralph's (XSH/7) PSK signal often but I found
> that when I could just begin to get a reasonable decode I could also copy
> his CW ID as well or better.  I think PSK doesn't have any special
> advantage
> for us.  JT9 however, should be very useful.  I don't need to talk fast!
>
> 73, Rudy
>
>
>
>
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