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@voyackey.net>
wrote:
In article <BLU404-EAS8080DBBCDC60A897EB07809EBB0@phx.gbl>,
Ken K6MR <k6mr@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@aol.com<mailto:Ktfrog007@aol.com>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 20:14
To: k6mr@outlook.com<mailto:k6mr@outlook.com>; cq-contest@contesting.com
<mailto:cq-contest@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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