[CQ-Contest] No more JAs

["Felipe J. Hernández"]

Qrz JA's?

Hmm... even qrt in this list.
Sure wish we could get it from the horses mouth..

Felipe
Np4z



Andrei Stchislenok wrote:
> I still hope, when propogation improve, say in 5 years or so, JA's
> pile-ups will be back, as well as BA-BZ stations, there were many of them
> opened right now.
> I do not hear many Russian stations from Asia -  and do I know that there
> are many active hams, just no conditions, they do not hear us and we don't
> hear them.
> We are all human,
> Propagation (to be exact - lack of it) this is the main problem.
> 73's Andrei EW1AR-NP3D
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> 2007/3/28, David Pruett <k8cc at comcast.net>:
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>> KI9A at aol.com wrote:
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>>> Or, maybe it propagation being So poor?
>>>
>>> 73-Chuck KI9A
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>> This is not a propagation problem.  For those relative newcomes amoung
>> us, many of us "old timers" who remember DX contesting in the 70s and
>> 80s can tell stories of (seemingly) never-ending runs of JAs from even
>> modest stations well away from the west coast.  In my case, I can
>> clearly remember getting my first 100+ hours on 28 MHz SSB running JAs
>> from Michigan with a 3L tribander at 40' mounted in a tree.
>>
>> Nothing like this exists now.  It's also the reason for the demise in DX
>> contest activity in zone 3 (no insult intended).
>>
>> One hypothesis put forth is that the JAs got bored with being "cannon
>> fodder" for the West Coast big guns.  Another theory is that as crowding
>> the big JA cities got worse, fewer JAs could put up antennas for HF.
>> Perhaps the lure of cell phones and computers pulled the JA
>> techno-hobbyist away from ham radio.  Take your pick.
>>
>> I doubt there is any easy fix for this, unless we can make HF ham radio
>> attractive to these people again.
>>
>> For many years, we all waited for a huge explosion of BY hams as China
>> became a more open society.  That hasn't worked to any great extent
>> either...
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dave/K8CC
>>
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