[600MRG] HF-MF band planning

[Jim Miller]

Hi Bill

I'll be using CW, JT9 and one of the "conversational" MFSK modes
eventually. Since I don't plan on a linear I won't have PSK31.

jim


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/03/2014 10:27 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
>
>> JT65 and the rest of the JT modes are FSK and inherently don't need SSB.
>> They can of course be generated that way and poorly at times.
>>
>> PSK31 requires a linear that you'd find in an SSB rig.
>>
>> jim ab3cv
>>
>>
>>  Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. You have helped me decide which digital
> mode(s) to try to implement here. Whatever I do will be one for QSO modes.
> AND will include CW. I saw comments about reserving the whole new band for
> WSPR and other slow motion modes that we can't even hear. One argument was
> emergencies. My own impression of those are that an emergency will already
> have played out to it's conclusion before any real communication could be
> completed. The population of hams using those modes is small compared to
> the pool of hams available and there may not be enough surviving hams in an
> affected area to even initiate emergency traffic on those modes.
>
> In past posts I have made light of WSPR and the other slow motion modes
> (some of which require an internet connection!) and especially frequency
> control down into the fractional milliHertz tolerances. I applaud the hams
> who invest time, effort, and money chasing that but I ain't going there.
> With a 7 kc band I AM chasing TCXOs with *NO* free running VFOs. But I am
> planning to use more effective, lightning fast CW at maybe 15 WPM <evil
> grin>. Use of a waterfall display should help us sort out where the
> openings are and where we would just be QRM.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
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