[ADXA] How many JA's?

Sun Nov 19 10:50:09 EST 2023

Steve – yes that is pretty much still their practice, unlike another part of the world to our northeast that doesn’t standby for anything, regardless of what your instructions are !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reminds me of a presentation at Contest University a few years ago by a prominent contester on contest rules. He had compiled log data to support his conclusions which, I’ll summarize:

One part of the world holds to strict compliance to the rules, no exceptions.

Another part of the world views the rules as a “guideline” and always presses the envelope to see what they can get away with, without being caught. It’s simply part of their “culture”.

Based on my response above I’ll let you assess which part of the world I’m referring to in each example. As for the USA there’s good news and bad news. We exhibit a little of both “worlds” !  😊

ZN

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Steven Rutledge
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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 <mailto:w5znjoel at gmail.com>  wrote:

Trent – THAT’S IT !!!!!!  😊

From: Trent Fleming  <mailto:trent.fleming at gmail.com> <trent.fleming at gmail.com> 
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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 <mailto: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 <mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net>  <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> > On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
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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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