None of this comes without a price, of course.
I spoke yesterday with a ham friend in Egypt and hope to see North Africa in my log very soon. South Africa, a rarity in 2007, has become an almost daily presence in the reverse-beacon display. Looking at global activity via the PSKReporter map it's clear that Europe is actually more active on JT65-HF than any other regions. Contrast that with this morning when my reverse-beacon logged nine European stations including two new ones which I happily logged. In 2007 interest in the mode was primarily from the US and Japan. I'm happy to report that I was wrong thanks in large part to W4CQZ (formerly W6CQZ) who developed several key components for this mode a reverse-beacon system, a web-based chat/sked page which displays reverse-beacon data in near real-time, and an application (appropriately named JT65-HF) which improves upon the original WSJT application written by K1JT.Įach component is interesting by itself, but combined together they have generated a lot of interest and attracted a whole new breed of very active JT65-HF users with more coming on the air every day. Back in late 2007 I wrote about what I thought was the impending demise of the JT65A mode on HF.
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