JA SOTA QSO Party will take place on 5 October 2024 from 20:00 to 6 October 2024 at 09:00 (UTC).
Core time is 00:00 - 03:00 (UTC) on 6 October 2024.
De Katsu JP3DGT
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I am looking forward to it, Katsu! Right now (2233z) we have very good conditions to JA from NA on 10 meters!
73,
Randy, ND0C
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Dear Katsu-san,
Thank you for the notice. W6LOR and I will try for summit-to-summit with JA from California. Wishing you all good band conditions for the weekend!
73,
Mike K6STR
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I will join in, looking forward to seeing you on the air.
73,
Matt / JG1BOK
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Hello, I will be on the island of Kauai (Hawaii) at this time. I will look out for you!
de K7UOU Gary
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If the weather is kind I’ll be at VK3/VC-037 on Sunday between 0000z and 0300z.
Looking for VK ↔ JA S2S contacts on 10m SSB and FT8.
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The first day of the JA event is also the day of the W7A 10 Point Madness event, our afternoon…cool!
Pete
WA7JTM
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Typhoon Krathon will likely be finished affecting Northern Taiwan by Sunday, so I can activate from from BV.
On a separate note, I’m planning a SOTA-xpedition with 6 activations from 10/10 to 10/12. I will mostly do quick activations on 15m. I hope I can get some chases from JA. I’m always grateful for so many chases from JA.
Brian
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I will be at the JA SOTA QSO party almost all day, looking forward to S2S contact with DX stations.
73,
Aki, JI3BAP
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Update - Access to VK3/VC-037 is blocked by road closures due to recent storms.
I’ll now be at VK3/VC-031 instead.
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Thank you to everyone who participated.
I only participated in the morning, but we were able to create 23 S2S stations, including 5 from North America.
The early morning 28MHz was especially good.
See you again soon.
73 De Katsu JP3DGT
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Hello dear JA friends,
Thanks for organising this event.
I couldn’t go and activate a summit this time, but instead I tried chasing a bit on Sunday Oct 6th early morning from home.
Contrary to what happened in past events, this time I had no long path QSO in 14 MHz.
Instead, thanks to the solar conditions, I found an open short path in 28 MHz.
First I chased Aki, @JI3BAP, very loud on CW at 06:38 z.
Then I logged Seiji @JG4LCS, also CW at 06:58 z
I found Aki again, this time on 28 SSB.
Last I logged Tak, @7M4QZE also 28 MHz CW at 07:46
I was very glad to say hi to all of you, thanks!!
Any info of your working conditions & pictures is welcome.
See you next time, hopefully…
73 Ignacio
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