[CQ-Contest] JA's long time passing

[Larry]

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 to other 
things but with as many of us as there is it is not a noticeable. 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 (number 2 population of hams 
in the world IIRC) and the US was around 500K.

73, Larry  W6NWS

On 3/1/2016 10:06 AM, David Siddall wrote:
> 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 about 28% of
> all QSOs.
>
> But yes, not like it used to be, especially on the more difficult path to
> the east coast.  I remember those "good old days" , working even 5- and
> 10-watt mobiles in downtown Tokyo during multiple 100-hour runs in from the
> east coast during the late 1970's sunspot peak; and listening to W7RM
> running JAs with his second antenna part-way down the cliff to lessen
> stateside QRM off the back!
>
> Is it just a coincidence that the number of licensees and activity
> decreased as economic troubles overtook the prosperity of the 1970's &
> 1980's?
>
> Dave K3ZJ
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou at voyackey.net>
> wrote:
>
>> In article <BLU404-EAS8080DBBCDC60A897EB07809EBB0 at phx.gbl>,
>>          Ken K6MR <k6mr at outlook.com> wrote,
>>          on "Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:38:30 -0800";
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> From: Ktfrog007 at aol.com<mailto:Ktfrog007 at aol.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 20:14
>>> To: k6mr at outlook.com<mailto:k6mr at outlook.com>; cq-contest at contesting.com
>> <mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>
>>> Subject: JA's long time passing
>>>
>>> What happened to all that JA activity?
>> 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 activities for those who were teenage
>> around
>> 1980.  Likewise, please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't see so much
>> activities
>> from west cost like what was about 30 years ago.  Now it's quite difficult
>> to
>> be a continental winner for CQWW(SOABHP) from JA.
>> --
>> Katsuhiro 'Don' Kondou, JH5GHM(JH1GBZ)
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