| Operating Month(s) | Call Sign | Event | Accurate Operating Period |
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| 2006 | 2007 | |||||||||||||
| A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | |||
| A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J1S (Fixed) | The Centurial Anniversary of World Scouting | Mar. 1, 2006 - Mar. 31, 2008 |
| 8J100S (Mobile) |
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| A | M | J | J | A | S | 8N3Y | Takasago-city Yonedanishi Elementary School ARISS School Contact | Feb. 1 - Mar. 31, 2006 Apr. 12 - Sept. 30, 2006 |
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| A | 8N1MOMO | Koga-city Momo (or Peach) Festival | Mar. 1 - Apr. 5, 2006 | |||||||||||
| A | 8J10Y | The 10th Anniversary of Yoshikawa-city | Apr. 1 - 30, 2006 | |||||||||||
| A | M | 8N6HIGO | The 48th JARL Annual General Meeting in Kumamoto (having the old prefecture name Higo) | Apr. 1 - May 28, 2006 | ||||||||||
| A | M | 8J6HAM | The 5th Nishinihon (or West Japan) Ham Fair | Apr. 1 - May 28, 2006 | ||||||||||
| A | M | J | 8N3HAM | The 11th Kansai Amateur Radio Festival | Apr. 1 - June 11, 2006 | |||||||||
| A | M | J | 8J0N | The 100th Anniversary of Nagaoka-city | Apr. 1 - June 30, 2006 | |||||||||
| A | M | J | J | A | S | O | 8N3K | Nojigiku (or Chrysanthemum japonense) Hyogo Kokutai (or The 61st National Sports Festival) | Apr. 1 - Oct. 10, 2006 | |||||
| A | M | J | J | A | S | O | 8N6SRQ | The Saruku Urban Walking Tour Expo 2006 (Saruku: A dialect around Nagasaki, meaning "Saunter") | Apr. 1 - Oct. 29, 2006 | |||||
| A | M | 8J6DON | Hakata Dontaku Port Festival | Apr. 29 - May 5, 2006 | ||||||||||
| M | 8J8JN | Activating Amateur Radio among Our Juniors | May 1 - 7, 2006 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J4BARA | Fukuyama Rose (or Bara) Festival | May 1 - 31, 2006 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J1ITU | The 38th ITU Day | May 1 - 31, 2006 | |||||||||||
| M | J | 8J1P | QRP Day | May 12 - June 30, 2006 | ||||||||||
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| 8J4P | ||||||||||||||
| 8J5P | ||||||||||||||
| 8J6P | ||||||||||||||
| M | 8N3DNP | Dempa no Hi (or Radiowave Day) | May 14 -, 2006 | |||||||||||
| M | J | 8N5JG | Deutschland (or Germany) in Japan 2005/2006 | May 21 - June 30, 2006 | ||||||||||
| J | 8J8JTG | 2006 Joho Tsushin Gekkan
(or Information Telecommunication Month) |
June 1 - 18, 2006 | |||||||||||
| J | J | 8N4OKI | The Opening of New Oki Airport | June 1 - July 31, 2006 | ||||||||||
| J | J | A | 8J5TOSA | Tosa 240,000-koku Expo
(Tosa is an old name of Kochi-prefecture. A koku is a unit for measuring rice that's about 180 liters, 150 kilograms or 5 bushels, which is enough to feed one person for one year. In the Edo period (1603-1867), the wealth of a clan was measured by the number of koku its land produced.) |
June 1 - Aug. 31, 2006 | |||||||||
| J | J | A | S | 8J4CM | Hiroshima Children's Museum ARISS School Contact | June 8 - Sept. 7, 2006 | ||||||||
| J | J | 8N6HAM | The 45th Anniversary of Amateur Radio in Okinawa & Okinawa Amateur Radio Day
(June 22 — the day that the first amateur station by a Japanese national was licensed as KR8AB in 1961, under the administration of the US Government.) |
June 10 - July 31, 2006 | ||||||||||
| J | J | 8J4626H | Yuhara Rotenburo no Hi
(or Yuhara-town Outdoor Hot Spring Bath's Day) (A play on words. First, in Japanese, "2 = ni" / "2 things = futatsu" // "6 = roku" / "6 things = muttsu." So — "June 26th" -> "626" -> "roku-futatsu-roku" -> "ro(ku)-ten-fu(tatsu)-ro(ku)" -> "ro-ten-fu-ro" -> "rotenburo" X-) "4" is the call area to which Yuhara-town belongs.) | June 26 - July 17, 2006 | ||||||||||
| J | 8N1HQ | 2006 IARU World HF Championship Contest | July 1 - 9, 2006 | |||||||||||
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| 8N8HQ | ||||||||||||||
| J | A | 8J7STAR | Sendai Tanabata (or Star) Festival
(Legendary once-a-year rendezvous of two stars in the Milky Way. See the story at http://www.qrz.com/callsign/8J7STAR.) |
July 14 - Aug. 9, 2006 | ||||||||||
| J | A | S | 8J3SEA | The 34th SEANET (South East of Asia Amateur Radio Network) Convention 2006 Osaka | July 15 - Sept. 15, 2006 | |||||||||
| A | 8J1A | 2006 Amateur Radio Festival | Aug. 1 - 20, 2006 | |||||||||||
| A | 8J120JAS | The 20th Anniversary of Amateur Satellite Fuji | Aug. 1 - 31, 2006 | |||||||||||
| A | 8J620JAS | The 20th Anniversary of Amateur Satellite Fuji — Tanegashima I. | Aug. 1 - 31, 2006 | |||||||||||
| A | S | 8J7YJH | Sendai-city Yoshinari Junior High School ARISS School Contact | Aug. 1 - Sept. 30, 2006 | ||||||||||
| A | S | O | 8J2ARDF | All Japan ARDF Athetic Meet | Aug. 6 - Oct. 15, 2006 | |||||||||
| A | S | 8J7JAZZ | The 16th Johzenji Streetjazz Festival in Sendai | Aug. 10 - Sept. 10, 2006 | ||||||||||
| A | S | 8N8WRC | 2006 FIA World Rally Championship Round 11 "RallyJapan" | Aug. 20 - Sept. 3, 2006 | ||||||||||
| S | O | 8J4HAM | Hamfesta Kasaoka | Sept. 1 - Oct. 1, 2006 | ||||||||||
| S | O | 8N1I | The 18th All Japan Shogai (or Lifetime) Gakushu (or Learning) Festival in Ibaraki | Sept. 1 - Oct. 9, 2006 | ||||||||||
| S | O | 8J1H | The 90th Anniversary of Hachioji-city | Sept. 1 - Oct. 10, 2006 | ||||||||||
| S | O | 8J3R | The 5th Anniversary of Ritto-city | Sept. 1 - Oct. 31, 2006 | ||||||||||
| S | O | 8J7IWAKI | The 40th Anniversary of Iwaki-city | Sept. 23 - Oct. 22, 2006 | ||||||||||
| S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J3YAGI | Dr. YAGI memorial station (The 120th anniversary of the birth and the 30th anniverasy of the death, of Dr. Hidetsugu Yagi) |
Sept. 28, 2006 - Mar. 31, 2007 | |||||
| O | 8N0ICT | Regional ICT Futurity Fiesta 2006 in Niigata
(ICT: Information and Communications Technology) |
Oct. 1 - 31, 2006 | |||||||||||
| O | N | D | 8J7YAGI | Dr. YAGI memorial station (The 120th anniversary of the birth and the 30th anniverasy of the death, of Dr. Hidetsugu Yagi) |
Oct. 2 - Dec. 31, 2006 | |||||||||
| N | D | J | F | M | 8J1ANT | The 50th anniversary of Japan's antarctic exploration | Nov. 1, 2006 - Mar. 31, 2007 | |||||||
| D | J | 8J1K | Kashiwabara Community Center ARISS School Contact | Dec. 1, 2006 - Jan. 31, 2007 | ||||||||||
| D | J | F | M | 8J8WSC (Mobile) | FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Sapporo 2007 (FIS: Fédération Internationale de Ski) |
Dec. 1, 2006 - Mar. 4, 2007 | ||||||||
| J | F | M | 8N8WSC (Fixed) |
Jan. 22, 2007 - Mar. 4, 2007 | ||||||||||
| D | J | F | M | 8J6KMJ | The 400th Anniversary of Kumamoto Jo (or Castle) | Dec. 20, 2006 - Mar. 31, 2007 | ||||||||
| J | F | M | 8N3HK | The 60th Anniversary of Hirakata-city & the 1500th Anniversary of "Kuzuha-no-miya" (or Capital of Kuzuha), where the 26th Emperor "Keitai Tenno" ascended the throne in 507AD
(Kuzuha: Foliage of Japanese Cinnamon) |
Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2007 | |||||||||
| J | 8J1BB | Bunkyo-city Disaster Prevention (or Bosai) Exhibition | Jan. 4 - 17, 2007 | |||||||||||
| J | F | M | 8J49JARL | The 49th JARL Annual General Meeting in "Hare-no-kuni" (or "Land of Sunshine"), Okayama | Jan. 7 - May 20, 2007 | |||||||||
| F | M | 8J6HAM | The 6th West Japan Hamfair | Feb. 1 - Mar. 4, 2007 | ||||||||||
| F | M | 8N1EME | Project BIG-DISH
(An EME trial, using a Cassegrain antenna equipped with a 32-meter diameter main mirror for an INTELSAT link in KDDI Ibaraki Satellite Communications Center, where closed at the end of 2006.) |
Feb. 1 - Mar. 31, 2007 | ||||||||||
| F | M | 8N3F | Hanazono Elementary School ARISS School Contact
(Hanazono: Flower Garden) |
Feb. 1 - Apr. 30, 2007 | ||||||||||
| M | 8J7WWCCA | World Women's Curling Championship 2007 Aomori Japan | Mar. 1 - 25, 2007 | |||||||||||
| M | 8N1MOMO | Koga-city Momo (or Peach) Festival | Mar. 1 - Apr. 5, 2007 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J7100F | The 100th Anniversary of Fukushima-city | Mar. 1 - May 31, 2007 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J10YRP | The 10th Anniversary of Yokosuka Research Park | Mar. 7 - Dec. 31, 2007 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J1FB | The 60th Anniversary of Bunkyo-city
("Fumi-no-machi" , or "Town with Literature": Bunkyo-city) |
Mar. 15 - Apr. 15, 2007 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J0T | Tatsuno Juvenile Space Club ARISS School Contact | Mar. 15 - May 18, 2007 | |||||||||||
| M | 8J3GAJMC | The 27th General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress | Mar. 16? - May 31, 2007 | |||||||||||
Special-event stations celebrate specific expositions, anniversaries and so on. Moreover, ARISS school contact stations allow non licensed elementary and junior high schoolers to be guest operated. These operations have became quite popular, and many generate lots of activity. Both are eligible for a temporary 2×1-2×5 call sign with an 8J or 8N prefix. (Please note that the following stations also use an 8J prefix, but on a permanent basis: 8J1RL and 8J1RF in Antarctica; 8J1JBS and 8J1JCS on their orbits.)
Call signs and operating periods are subject to chage. Furthermore, having possibilities to be cancelled.
Information obtained from web sites of JARL — HQ, districts and prefectural branches —, local clubs, and so on.
A 7J-8N amateur call sign implies (1) a foreigner, (2) an individual under the call sign shortage in Area 1 — these two are sequentially assigned —, (3) an outside province, (4) a special event, (5) an ARISS school contact or (6) an emargency. The following is not a written policy, but a follow-up categorization by the author. (8K and 8L are not used yet.)
7J-8N PREFIX AMATEUR STATION |-Foreigner licensed 1985-1999 (7J#$$$) | |-Individual in Area 1, licensed in the call sign shortage 1990-2003 (7[K-N][1-4]$$$) | +-Special call sign (7J1RL, 8J's, 8M2000, 8M1C and 8N's) |-Special place: outside Japan | |-Polar region | | |-Antarctic region | | | |-JARL Antarctic station (8J1RF, RL, RM) | | | +-Individual (8J1AA-AD, 1958-1961) | | | | | +-Arctic region (8J1NP, 1978) | | | |-Another Country/Entity: Okinotorishima I. (7J1RL, 1976) | | | +-Space: Satellite itself (8J1JAS, JBS, JCS) | |-Commemoration | |-JARL | | |-Specially commemorative station | | | |-Regular | | | | |-Hamfair (8J1HAM, 8N1HAM, 8J1A) | | | | |-ITU Day (8J#ITU, -2003) | | | | +-IARU HF Championship (8J3XHQ, 8J3JHQ, 8N#JHQ, 8N#HQ) | | | | | | | +-Screened | | | | | +-Special staion | | | +-Other amateur organization | | | |-Boy scouts | | |-World Jamboree (8J1WJ, 1971) | | |-Japan Jamboree (eg 8J6BSJ) | | |-Prefectural Camboree (8N3BSN, 2005) | | +-100th Anniversary (8J1S, 8J100S) | | | |-Lions club (8N3LIO, 2002) | | | |-ITU Association Japan (8J1ITU, 2002-) | | | |-Rotary club (8N3RI, 2004) | | | +-Other club | | | |-Local Club (eg 8J8EXP) | | | +-JARL prefectual branch (8J4WLC, 2002) | |-ARISS project station operationalized for elementary and junior high schoolers | without thier own ham tickets | (eg 8N#ISS) | +-Emergency: Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (8J3AAA-AMT, 1995)