Topband: Notes on early JA to East Coast QSO's

[Jon Zaimes AA1K]

Hi John,

Interesting roundup!

When I was in Shelton, Connecticut, we heard JA3ONB and JA2GQO day after day after day starting in late December of 1980 and through January and February1981, as early as an hour before sunrise and as late as a half-hour after. Even heard them as late as April that year, just before we moved to Delaware. No JA QSOs though. We had just 100 watts to a shunt-fed 70-ft tower;  and the only useful Beverages for them were due West and due South. I think they were running higher power. I did work VS6DO one morning though. Later I received an SWL card from a UA0 on Sakhalin from early January.

My first JA QSOs -- JA3ONB and JA2GQO -- came in 1983 from my Bear, Delaware, QTH.

73/Jon AA1K

 At 10:36 PM 1/20/04, you wrote:


>Does anyone else have interesting info to share on this subject?
>
>73, John W1FV