[ADXA] How many JA's?

[Steven Rutledge]

When I worked the ten meter contest from C6 circa 1987, the cycle was 
coming up.  I was told there were thousands of JA's who needed C6 and 
other Caribbean countries.  I had 100 watts and a 10 meter Ringo.  Well, 
they were right.  I was swamped with JA stations, swamped.  However, I 
noticed and remembered one thing about them. They were the most 
disciplined ops on the air.  I would have a pile-up that sounded like 
Bouvet on FT8, usually in the evening. I would say "stand by" and it was 
like I unplugged my antenna.  I don't know if its still like that but 
that is the only time I have ever heard anything like that.

Thanks Joel/Trent/Dennis

Steve, N4JQQ/C6AFP

On 11/19/2023 8:22 AM, w5znjoel at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Trent – THAT’S IT !!!!!! 😊
>
> *From:* Trent Fleming <trent.fleming at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 19, 2023 8:18 AM
> *To:* w5znjoel at gmail.com
> *Cc:* ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [ADXA] How many JA's?
>
> It’s a trick! Theys two of them!!!
>
> trentfleming.com
>
>
>
>     On Nov 19, 2023, at 5:22 AM, w5znjoel at gmail.com wrote:
>
>     
>
>     That’s a funny story, Dennis! Sort of reminds me of a Lewis
>     Grizzard story about the union solders leaving Atlanta and a lone
>     confederate solder atop Stone Mountain mooning the troops as they
>     went by! I won’t relate it here, folks can google it.
>
>     Yes if the prop is to JA you might as well QRX cause there’s gonna
>     be a herd of them in there for a while.
>
>     ZN
>
>     *From:* adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>     <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On Behalf Of *Dennis Schaefer
>     *Sent:* Saturday, November 18, 2023 10:06 PM
>     *To:* ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
>     *Subject:* [ADXA] How many JA's?
>
>     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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