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
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
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
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
I will join in, looking forward to seeing you on the air.
73,
Matt / JG1BOK
Hello, I will be on the island of Kauai (Hawaii) at this time. I will look out for you!
de K7UOU Gary
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.
The first day of the JA event is also the day of the W7A 10 Point Madness event, our afternoon…cool!
Pete
WA7JTM
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
I will be at the JA SOTA QSO party almost all day, looking forward to S2S contact with DX stations.
73,
Aki, JI3BAP
Update - Access to VK3/VC-037 is blocked by road closures due to recent storms.
I’ll now be at VK3/VC-031 instead.
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
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