[600MRG] JT9 and split - food for thought?

[kl7aj at acsalaska.net]

That sounds like a capital idea.   And lower case, as well. :)
Happy Thanksgiving, all.    Alas, I won't be near an HF rig to do the traditional QRZ turkey day check-in, but I might check out echolink from the in-laws/outlaws QTH

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On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:20:20 -0500, N1BUG  wrote:

>> Last night I had been calling CQ for quite a while with no callers
>> (that I could copy). A friend told me I had people calling me down
>> the band. I could see signals below me, but those that were decoding
>> were other QSOs or CQers. I could see some JT9 signals mixed in with
>> RFI which were not decoding.
>> 
>> I decided to try an experiment. I sent one period of "SIMPLEX PLS".
>> After my next CQ I got a caller on my frequency who happened to be a
>> new state for me. It may be just coincidence. I have no way of
>> knowing whether this was one of the stations who had been calling me
>> split. But the experiment may be worth repeating. Maybe alternating
>> periods of a standard CQ and "SIMPLEX PLS" would be helpful. :-)
>> 
>> 73,
>> Paul
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