[ADXA] How many JA's?

[Dennis Schaefer]

First, I want to make it clear that I have tremendous respect for Japanese
people and Japanese hams.   We spent 2 years there and our son still has
Japanese citizenship because he was born there.   I got to know many JA
hams and was impressed at how active and enthusiastic they were back in the
1970's.

Having said that, when trying to work a DXPedition in the Asia/Pacific
area, one begins to wonder just how many JA's there really are????  It
reminded me of a joke....

General Chesty Puller was a famous Marine general in WWII.  He was
interested in taking an island and had two Japanese prisoners.  He asked
the first one "how many Japanese soldiers are on that island?".   The
soldier said "oh, many, many, many.  As many as the grains of sand on the
beach".  Puller sent him away and brought in the second prisoner.  "how
many Japanese soldiers are on that island?"   This time, the answer was "as
many as the stars in the sky".   A Marine scout came running in with a
report.  "How many Japanese" asked Puller.   The scout said "A whole damn
potful of  'em, sir".  Puller then said "Well, I'm glad we finally found
someone WHO CAN COUNT!"

So, ham radio is alive and well in Japan and I welcome them to the pileups,
no matter what their numbers are!

I've worked a bunch - 8 new band counters today so far,  so no real
complaints about the competition.  I worked on the 160M antenna some and
fixed a bad connector on the 80M antenna.

73,
Dennis/RZ
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