Hi Dave
Your guess might be correct.
I believe there are no good way to keep the JA contest acitivities high.
JA licensee has been going down to nearly half in these past 10years.
However, there had been good JA acitivities while I was in Layang
Layang Is as 9M4SDX.
Most big JA Club stations at University like JA1YFG/JA2YKA/JA3YKC/
JA9YBA have not enough club members for Multi/Multi. They tried to
recruit their new members hard in every April (new season will
start Apr here) but with no luck in recent years. Most young guys
are not interested in hamradio so no new blood into the contest
past years.
Tack KUMAGAI JE1CKA
In message "Re: [CQ-Contest] No more JAs"
on 07/03/28, David Pruett <k8cc@comcast.net> writes:
: 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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