The other station will respond with the same information – When a contact is established, start with Tx1 button and work your way down. – Once someone established communications, the lines will turn read showing that they are talking to your station – Hit the TX6 button which is the CQ KF4BZT EL09 text.
As you can see, Dan, W0JMP chimed in with some information on how to use the application to establish communications. I put a feeler out on the ham radio Facebook page on Feb 11th, about this mode and got some awesome help for my first time attempt on this mode. This video is not mine, it just shows how to run JT65 with JT-Alert and you can see where Dan is popular. I now have it installed and ready to rock.Īnother application that Dan recommended is called JT-Alert which will alert to what calls are coming in over JT65 and should keep you from duplicating the call on the same band.
He mentioned that my timing was about 0.8 seconds off, which was ok, but not perfect. Dan mentioned that timing is very critical and he recommended that I use dimension4 to help with the timing. The application which I used is called WSJT-X which has a lot of capability in making this form of communication much better. The higher the wattage the more QRM that you will cause for other stations.
It has been said that 25 – 30 Watts may be considered high wattage. ? From what I have been reading the lower the wattage out, the better for this mode. The application was decoding some stations which is step one. I was using 10.130 as the receive frequency because at night, 20Meter up to 10Meter were dead. The first image shows my first attempt at listening and decoding data coming in. It is impressive how weak the signal can be in order for the waterfall to see the station and the application to decode the data. It appeared from my research that it is use in weak signal HF as well. I heard some things about JT65 and JT9 being used for weak signal communications such as moonbounce (EME), and meteor scatter. I finally added my Rigblaster M8 to my Kenwood TS-440S and thought that I would try listening to some data last night. He was my first JT65 contact and my first 30Meter contact. First off, I want to start this post by thanking Dan, W0JMP for the help last night in using this awesome mode.