Hey, Rory!

I’ve used the shotgun method lately when the bands are busy with stations. I just hit all the 4s or 6s I can, or whatever section has prefects I need, and then sort it out later. I’ve got a few that way. But mostly, I make a list of remaining prefects I need under the area sections. Sometimes I will highlight a call in WSJT-X, say a JH4, and then look it up to see if it’s in a pref I need. If so, I write it down as a station to chase and then add to the wanted list in JTAlert.

A lot of hams have their pref in their QRZ address. If not, I look up their grid location on the map in the details view of their QRZ page. If you zoom in on the map (in full screen view), you can see the prefectures delineated by a dotted line on the map. Zoom out where you can see the whole pref and you will see its name printed in small capital letters.

What’s confusing is there are a lot of Japan stations which have more than one location and they don’t always say where they are at the time. OR the prefecture is the same name as the city they are in and so not listed twice in the address. Again, the map helps.

The shotgun method will work eventually and help you rack up your score for Worked All Japan Award (the one with 1,000 cities)! JARL has a spreadsheet you can download from their website for chasing that award. Very OCDC. Like golf. I not into it yet, hi.

Find you a method and keep chasing :-),

73,

Scott/W5AAJ

From: Rory Bowers <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 4:21 PM
To: Scott Branyan <[email protected]>
Cc: ADXA <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ADXA] PS Worked All Japan Award (WAJA) needs

Good job Scott!  You are much farther along than I am.  I was seriously working on WAJA until I got sick.  I was using the shotgun method; work all of them I can and then shotgun the ones I don't need.  But that makes for a heck of a lot of unneeded QSOs.  I have also found that figuring out what prefecture they are in is tricky business unless they put it on their card.  LOTW confirmations are no help at all. It appears that the method you are using is working great!  Hang in there, you are so close I am sure you will finish it.

73,

Rory, K5CKS

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 3:58 PM Scott Branyan <[email protected]> wrote:

Last night I picked up a great station in Ishikawa Pref I needed: JA9CCG. Take a look at his QRZ page photos. He is a writer but likes to photograph war planes. He texted me in JTAlert to see if I was getting his reply. We worked until the QSO finished on a busy 20m band with a lot of QSB and QRM. Very nice and helpful ham!

So just have three prefectures to go: Yamaguchi in JA4 and Nagasaki and Kagoshima in JA6 land. It’s been a fun and more casual pursuit. Hard part now comes in getting the last three and sending QSL cards out through the buro and waiting.

Let me know if you see any calls in those three pref—if you track it :-). Thanks!

73,

Scott/W5AAJ

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