JA SOTA QSO Party will take place on 16 September 2023 from 20:00 to 17 September 2023 at 09:00 (UTC).
Core time is 00:00 - 03:00 (UTC) on 17 September 2020.
De Katsu JP3DGT
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I will join from summit and set SW3 aleart around Sep 10th.
Hope to see you on the air.
JG1BOK/Matt
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I plan to activate on two summits, so I hope the weather’s good.
Hope to see you on the air!
de seiji/JG4LCS
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I am planning to QRV in digital mode.
HIRO/JI1IKC
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The date of the event is approaching.
So far we have a total of 15 stations alerted, but there will be more.
De Katsu JP3DGT
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Very nice event. But, on that day, I have to assist a workshop on safe mountaineering for a mountaineering organization I belong to. I can’t even watch the bands. Too bad…
JH3GBD Shin
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Good luck to all! We will try to listen from a summit in California. I’m guessing 15m cw might work.
73,
Mike K6STR
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Hello, Katsu.Thank you for announcing the JA SOTA QSO. I was able to set up on one of my local peaks, W6/CT-226, for the event. You were my first S2S. Thank you!
Between 2130 and 0051Z I made S2S QSOs with ten different JA stations, sixteen QSOs in all on 17, 15,12, and 10 meters. Several JA chasers were also logged as were a few NA S2S and chasers. I could hear BX2AKP on 15 for several minutes, but could not get through the pileup.
JS1IFK, JH0WMN/0, JJ1OMV/1 were not strong enough to call, but I could tell they were on frequency. JH0UUY/0 and JA4RQO/4 had Q4 signals, but did not respond to my calls.
My station was a KX3 @5 watts and a 44’ doublet fed with CAT5e single twisted pair hung from a 6 meter pole. After 00Z I ran 10 watts.
S2S stations logged:
JP3DGT/3 17, 10
JR8MHA/7 17
JG1BOK 17
JG4LCS/5 15, 12
7N1FRE/7 15
JI3BAP/3 15, 10
7M4QZE/1 15, 10
JL1NIE 15, 10
JF1NDT/1 15, 12
JE1LHW/1 10
JA chasers logged:
JH1MXV 15, 10
JA9MJR 15
JA1VVH 15
JJ1IZY 10
JG0AWE 10
JA1CTV 10
II listened to the NCDXF beacons and JA2IGY was strongest on 12 and 10. I got seventeen Asia rbn hits from:
JN1ILK (6) 12, 10
JI1HFJ (6) 15, 12, 10
BG4GOV (2) 10
BH4RXP (2)10
BH4RRG0 (1) 10
That was a wonderful way to spend my day. A cloudy misty morning became a partly sunny cool afternoon. Thank you for all the QSOs!
73, David N6AN
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Thank you for S2S
Katsu JP3DGT
Condition was good.
I was also able to do a lot of S2S.
Katsu JP3DGT
I went to JA/KT-014 in the morning (local time) and JA/HG-243 in the afternoon.
Early morning propagation with North America was good and lots of S2S was made.
Evening propagation with Europe was good (unfortunately no S2S).
*JA/KT-014 before 00:00(UTC)
*JA/KT-014 after 00:00(UTC)
*JA/HG-243
Let’s do it again!
Katsu JP3DGT
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I went out early to try to catch some of the JA activators in the 0600-0700z slot. I did work one JA, but not a SOTA activator. Conditions were really good to VK at this time. I did tune into several spotted JA SOTA frequencies, but couldn’t hear anything.
It looked from the spots like there was high JA SOTA activity around 2200z, and at 0400z. I might be tempted in future to camp out on a summit so I can be operational at these times too.
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It’s been a while, Tom.
JA/HG-243 is the mountain I S2S’d with you before.
I tried many times to listen to your signal on 20m but unfortunately I could not hear it.
I had good JA-EU propagation on 15m and 17m from 07:00Z to 08:00Z.
It is difficult because conditions change from day to day.
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I was unaware that this event was going on, but very happy that Katsu JP3DGT found me on 17m CW during my W0C (Colorado) summit activation for a S2S contact. He patiently repeated his callsign and summit reference, allowing me to complete my first S2S with Japan. Thanks!
Peter KD0YOB
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Thank you too.
The rig was a KX2 (10W) and the antenna was IVDP (feeder height was 8mh).
See you again.
Katsu JP3DGT
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JA SOTA QSO PARTY Thanks QSO with me. I activated it at 2 summit which is easy to access and was able to make 26 S2S QSO.
Thanks all!
seiji/JG4LCS
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I Unfortunately was on and off summit before any JA stations were spotted, probably by hours. I hope you all had a great time.
73 de VE6JTW
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Thank you for the event - I was very happy to get several JA s2s in the log! I’m looking forward to the next one.
73,
Mike K6STR
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