[CQ-Contest] No more JAs

[Jim Neiger]

I'm having dinner with one of their more active contesters Saty JE1JKL , 
9M6NA etc, tomorrow, and I will try and get Saty's opinion and report back 
here.

Jim Neiger   N6TJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Felipe J. Hernández"" <fhdez at vox-tel.com>
To: "CQ CONTEST" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Cc: "David Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>; <KI9A at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] No more JAs


> 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
>>
>>
>> 2007/3/28, David Pruett <k8cc at comcast.net>:
>>
>>> KI9A at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Or, maybe it propagation being So poor?
>>>>
>>>> 73-Chuck KI9A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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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