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ONLY ONE TO OBSERVE THIS.  I FOLLOW 6 METER SPOTS CLOSELY AND HAVE NOTED
THE RAPID MIGRATION OF OPERATORS TO JT65 AWAY FROM CW AND SSB, PARTICULARLY
FOR FOREIGN DX ON SPORADIC E.  SO, YOU MAY WONDER WHY THERE HAS BEEN A
RAPID ADOPTION OF JT65.  THE BIG ADVANTAGE IS JT65S ABILITY TO PULL SIGNALS
OUT THAT ARE INAUDIBLE UP TO 10 30 DB BELOW THE NOISE.  ONE OF THE LOCAL
OPS HERE IN LAWRENCE SHOWED ME HIS JT65 STATION.  IT WAS MAGIC TO SEE THE
DECODES POP UP ON A DEAD BAND.  THIS ALLOWS SPORADIC E DX TO BE WORKED WHEN
SIGNALS ARE TOO WEAK TO HEAR.  JT65 HELPED THE LITTLE PISTOLS AND THE BIG
GUNS.  I RECEIVED REPORTS OF SOME VERY SMALL STATIONS I. E.  10 W, INDOOR
DIPOLES WORKING JAPAN, CANARY ISLANDS, AND EUROPE FROM NORTH AMERICA.  K5ND
IN GARLAND, TEXAS, WORKED JAPAN RUNNING 100 W AND A MOXON VIA JT65.  THE
BIG STATIONS PUSHED THE ENVELOPE.  SOME WORKED REALLY RARE DX FROM NORTH
AMERICA, SUCH AS TY2AC, SV9CVY, 9K2GS, VK4MA, VK8MS, E51WL, AND OTHERS.
SOME ISSUES AROSE, THOUGH.  WITH EVERYONE NOW CROWDING ON 50R276 MHZ WHEN
THE BAND WAS OPEN, INTERFERENCE WAS INEVITABLE.  IN EUROPE, IT SEEMED
STATIONS TRANSMITTED ALL SEQUENCES, MAKING CONTACTS DIFFICULT.  THE LONG
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