Topband: Where are the JA stations?

[Mike Waters W0BTU]

I'm no expert on 160 propagation, but it seems to me that we had the same thing 
last winter. Isn't it in February that the propagation tends to stop favoring 
Europe and start favoring VK, ZL, and JA?

 73,
Mike Waters
www.w0btu.com




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From: W7RH <midnight18 at cox.net>
To: Topband at contesting.com
Sent: Thu, December 23, 2010 10:02:51 AM
Subject: Topband: Where are the JA stations?

Fellow Top Banders,
...

The question I ask is the following: What happened to all the JA 
stations on 160? In the early years living in the Pacific Northwest we 
had so many unique JA contacts that the logs would end up being reduced 
by the contest committees. They have been in decline since specifically 
in the last few years.

In this years CQWW I heard only three Japanese stations. In the Stew 
Perry it was about the same, ...