- 1. [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: KH6DV@cs.com
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:37:16 EDT
- Where are the JA's has been a topic of interest to me for some time. I have heard theories from every corner and most have been based on wild guesses. One theory is that there are few decent HF stati
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- 2. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: rin JG1VGX <jg1vgx@jarl.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:58:39 +0900
- Hello all, I've been following this thread and waiting someone who is a dedicated JA contester might respond, which didn't happen, so I dare to write! Please remember I am a newbie in contesting ;) R
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- 3. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:41:06 -0700
- i might have rocks in my head, but i am thinking about trying a SOSB160 this Oceania dx contest from Hawaii, i would be centrally located for VK/JA/W, and should be able to work everybody with 50 wat
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- 4. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:05:28 -0700
- well, no luck on 160 but worked 4 on 80 cw the AADX test. where are all the JAs? i looked back at my record of the AA results from 1978/79/80/81, and i was working 20 - 30 JA stations per year on 80
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- 5. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: "Hal Offutt" <Hal@japancorporateresearch.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:36:25 +0900
- Hello, I've been trying to find a good explanation for the decline in JA activity that many have noted. I've gathered some interesting data but I'm still not satisfied that I have the answer. Here's
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-06/msg00239.html (13,931 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: "Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f@adelphia.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:40:48 -0000
- I lived in Seattle briefly in 1978, and had the good fortune to operate at K7RI, K7SS, and VE7WJ. I was amazed at how easy it was to generate a monstrous pileup of JAs (although using "K1UA/7" may ha
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-06/msg00246.html (9,057 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:40:22 -0700
- I think this is exactly the problem. Young technically minded people have a natural tendency to be competitive and a yearning to part of what they perceive to be the future. When I started college i
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- 8. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:05:10 -0500
- Let's consider an analogy with television. When I was born, it was a five channel world. When I got to junior high/high school, it was becoming a fifty channel world with cable television (albeit not
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-06/msg00252.html (10,045 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: Jimk8mr@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:03:15 EDT
- I've wondered if it might be that amateur radio provides a unique opportunity to practice speaking English with native speakers of various dialects, a highly valuable skill in today's world. In Europ
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-06/msg00253.html (8,743 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Lawley <g4buo@compuserve.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:46:40 +0100
- The number of JA hams has declined from its peak but I think the decline in JA contesters is sharper. When we ran GB50 from Windsor Castle, we were amazed how very many JAs we worked. Many more than
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- 11. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: K3BU@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:02:38 EDT
- turned on by contesting. Perhaps contesting isn't heavily promoted in Japan. Dave G4BUO<< Contesting flourishes where there are clusters of contesters that keep the fire going. The best examples are
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-06/msg00262.html (9,961 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's (score: 1)
- Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:28:28 -0700
- Good points Jim. I thought perhaps it might be the stronger cultural emphasis on competition especially in the Eastern European bloc countries (e.g. Radiosport). Orienteering (another competitive asp
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-06/msg00264.html (10,492 bytes)
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