Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:14:38 -0500
What happened to all that JA activity? 73, Ken, AB1J In a message dated 3/1/2016 01:40:21 GMT Standard Time, k6mr@outlook.com writes: Ah yes, the early 1970s from the west coast. A million JAs to wor
I have no idea. I got inactive about 1974, and when I returned in the 2000s they were gone. Someone lurking here must have gone through the change, perhaps a history lesson? Ken K6MR What happened to
The number of amateur radio station license in Japan is about one third at the peak in mid 90's, and the current number is almost like what was in early 80's. At the moment, I don't see so much activ
Some pretty good JA rates are still available from the west coast. Last September N6RO in the CQWW RTTY reported that from his 2-operator multi-multi that 780 JA QSOs were completed out of 2806, or a
One could add that when a non-NA ham realizes all the ARRL contests are made for those in NA, the enthusiasm wanes for waiting around just to work (again!) some USA guys ... that is just not so much
It seemed like many of the JA's of the day were somewhat young. I wonder if it is a case of outgrowing a toy and moving on to something else. There are probably many here in the US that have moved on
As far I remember there have been more then 2 millions of JA hams around. 73 Peter I haven't seen the numbers in many years but even at the height of the JA's I think there were less than 50K hams (n
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:29:08 -0500
I can't speak from the personal experience of Japanese hams, but if I was stuck with a small station in a crowded city where my contest activity consisted in calling the same loud stations in every c
50k is not close. JA operator licenses are issued for a lifetime so it isn't a good way to know how many there really are. The 2014 total is in the 3.5m range and growing at 22k per year. JA station
Here is some IARU data from 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20070628033710/http://www.iaru.org/statsum00.html 73 Peter, DJ7WW I don't remember ever seeing a number like that - 2M? But I haven't seen
Wonder if there has been the interest in remote operating IN Japan, as there has been in the US in recent years? Barry W2UP Hal, W1NN/7J1AAI, who spends half the year in Tokyo, reports anecdotally th
On Tue,3/1/2016 7:06 AM, David Siddall wrote: Last September N6RO in the CQWW RTTY reported that from his 2-operator multi-multi that 780 JA QSOs were completed out of 2806, or about 28% of all QSOs.
As for W1NN, I worked him during ARRL CW while he was in Tokyo. -- Katsuhiro 'Don' Kondou, JH5GHM(JH1GBZ) _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting