How did we end up with 7.076MHz for JT65?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:47 pm
Digital modes are personally important to me because I have an intractable hearing problem that makes it hard for me to use SSB or CW.
One of my challenges is to work all USA on 40m JT65 and I am about two thirds there, but progress has struck a snag due to increasing levels of SSB activity, mostly Asian, but some VK, on 7.076MHZ which is the designated frequency for JT65.
I know that the band plans are "gentle-person agreements" but it does seem a bit selfish when there is a lot of other places on the band that are empty. Maybe it's because the JT65 segment is in the middle of phone segment of the band whereas on other bands it is in a segment between the CW and phone portions and more readily identified as digital mode territory.
I have not been using JT65 long and not sure how we came to be allocated 7076 in the first place. As the SS cycle declines 40m is going to become more important and this clash of modes is going to drive everyone Is it time to move further down the band and how could this be achieved?
73
Wayne VK4WDM
One of my challenges is to work all USA on 40m JT65 and I am about two thirds there, but progress has struck a snag due to increasing levels of SSB activity, mostly Asian, but some VK, on 7.076MHZ which is the designated frequency for JT65.
I know that the band plans are "gentle-person agreements" but it does seem a bit selfish when there is a lot of other places on the band that are empty. Maybe it's because the JT65 segment is in the middle of phone segment of the band whereas on other bands it is in a segment between the CW and phone portions and more readily identified as digital mode territory.
I have not been using JT65 long and not sure how we came to be allocated 7076 in the first place. As the SS cycle declines 40m is going to become more important and this clash of modes is going to drive everyone Is it time to move further down the band and how could this be achieved?
73
Wayne VK4WDM