Yes.  This is the ARRL phone DX contest.  US and VE stations work the rest
of the world, including KL7 and KH6.

I have worked at least one DX station on all bands, 80 through 10, with my
FT-950.  But I doubt that JA got this far east on 15 meters except for
people with huge antennas.  At the times I was listening, I didn't even hear
Europe on 15 this morning, which is pretty bad.

73,

Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: dx ssb contest
> 
> Hey all:
> Ok, i think this is the dx ssb contest weekend....it is some contest
> anyway.
> Just wanted to mention that I have pretty fair propigation into JA land,
> and
> into all of south america on 15 and 20 from alberta.
> Managed to make contact with a mexican station using my 20M dipole on 15
> with an 8 to 1 swr...I'm guessing he must have had good ears.
> Also worked a J A on 20, which is quite odd for the middle of the
> afternoon
> and the sub par antenna i'm using on 20
> I'm not big into contesting, and most of the US stations didn't want any
> canadians for the contest so I was a bit limited to hunting for other dx,
> though the US can be considered dx from here since it is another country
> and
> all.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX