the J A's were running hot here on 15M all day saturday, or at least from 
about 1900UTC until around 00:00UTC.
I don't have anything for 15, but was listening on my 20M ham stick.  We had 
a really good east to west path going on where I was hearing VE3's working J 
A's all well over S9.
20 opened up into Chili and argentina later in the afternoon on saturday as 
well.
All this during the CQWW contest so of course everyone was out and about so 
you could actually get a good idea of where conditions were heading.
I didn't hear any VK's, but other local stations did hear and work some late 
friday night and on saturday and sunday.
The SFI was reasonably good, and the A and K index were both better on 
sunday than saturday.
My highlight was working CR2x from the Azores Islands on 20M with my 
hamstick and 100 watts.  I actually broke the big american pile up.

regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: cq dx


> I've heard some J A Japanese signals on 12 CW finally so that's a good 
> sign.
> I hear them every afternoon and early evening on 17 meters but the other 
> day
> was the first J A I heard on 12 since last season.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX