[CQ-Contest] JA's long time passing

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

I can't speak from the personal experience of Japanese hams, but if I was stuck with a small station in a crowded city where my contest activity consisted in calling the same loud stations in every contest, after time I expect I'd lose interest as well.


Hal, W1NN/7J1AAI, who spends half the year in Tokyo, reports anecdotally that there has been an uptick in interest by older Japanese hams, who are now retired and able to find places outside the city to operate and now have the time to do so.




73  -  Jim   K8MR



-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com>
To: David Siddall <hhamwv at gmail.com>
Cc: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>; Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou at voyackey.net>
Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 12:11 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] JA's long time passing

One could add that when a non-NA ham realizes all the ARRL contests are
made for those in NA, the enthusiasm wanes  for waiting around just to work
(again!) some USA guys ... that is just not so much fun............ not
nearly the fun of "everyone work everyone" especially as paths get harder
under SFI 95.

73, Charly
PS, people ask about my name spelling......... well I took the "lie" out of
former nickname, "Charlie" when I swore not to lie upon Buddhist vows.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:06 PM, David Siddall <hhamwv at gmail.com> 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>

> > <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)