[CQ-Contest] Where are the JA's

[mike l dormann]

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 watts and a
vertical from there

I think

mike w7dra
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:58:39 +0900 rin JG1VGX <jg1vgx at jarl.com> writes:
> 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 ;)
> 
> Regarding the housing limitation, yes, there are not so many big
> stations like with 15m 7/7/7s etc, but there are several big 
> stations
> who have antenna farm like this.
> http://www.dxcom.jp/fedxpfront/jh4uyb.html
> http://www010.upp.so-net.ne.jp/TTRC/
> http://jh6qil.hp.infoseek.co.jp/photo/ja6gceant.htm
> 
> KH6DV> I believe that there are still large numbers of well equipped 
> JA stations, 
> KH6DV> but that they are interested in DX chasing and to a much 
> lesser degree 
> KH6DV> contesting.
> 
> I agree with this point. Don't know the reason.
> 
> KH6DV> I know that a lot of JA's complain that the contest period 
> KH6DV> for most world wide contests puts them at a disadvantage. We 
> are still 
> KH6DV> contesting on Sunday when they have returned to their work 
> routine, its Monday 
> KH6DV> there. How many of us would get discouraged if we could only 
> operate the first day 
> KH6DV> of every major world wide contest.
> 
> I don't think this is the problem. For us it starts 9am Saturday 
> morning
> and ends 9am Monday. Normally we work on Saturday also. So beginning 
> not
> in Friday evening but Saturday morning is somewhat beneficial for 
> us. 
> (one can work saturday morning and join in contesting afternoon, 
> with
> only 3-4 hours loss.)
> Last hour Monday morning run is important but dedicated contester 
> may
> take an off on monday ;)
> However, I have to say 24 hour contests are easier to participate.
> 
> Recently, domestic contests are also suffering from decreasing 
> number of
> participants. So this may be a trend.
> 
> 73 rin JG1VGX (JA1ZLO op.)
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CQ-Contest mailing list
> -Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
> 
>