[Wswss] THANKS FOR YOUR HELP TEAM RE WSJT PROTOCOL, CONTESTING & DXING

[K6XN]

Team, thanks to all who provided help, advice and answers to my rookie
questions re WSJT last week for use in contesting and DXing. Thanks to your
help and advice I have now worked a lot of DX using the JT65a WSJT mode. In
only three days using less than 40W I have completed with a casual effort
test QSOs with stations in 12 states and 14 countries using JT65a on the
80m, 40m, 20m and 15m bands. Most of the stations I have worked were running
less than 25W and were using modest antennas e.g. dipoles and verticals. One
station in Poland on 20M, SP4KM, was only running 10W and he was 599 with a
signal -12 dB under my receiver noise.  Most had signal levels 10 dB to 20
dB under my receiver noise level. Special thanks to Russ, K6KLY and Tom K6EU
for answering my rookie Bozo WSJT questions by telephone. I hope to work
some of you in the pileups in the upcoming ARRL January VHF contest using
WSJT modes and more traditional modes ( SSB and CW) on 6M, 2M, 220 MHz, 430
MHz, 903 MHz and 1296 MHz from CM87. I am snowed out of my CM99 QTH in the
Sierras but I will try to give you some multipliers from my low power more
modest setup here in CM87.  KB, Ted, K6XN,  WSJT rookie but learning fast
with your help.