Operating Month(s) | W e b |
Call Sign |
Event | Accurate Operating Period |
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2020 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | |||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8N3DNP | Events by Promotion Member Committee for Appropriate Utilization of Radiowave in Osaka-pref. | Apr. 28, 2019 - | N | |
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | 8N7JAPAN | Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games & Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Rugby World Cup 2019 and FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019
[Olympic and Paralympic themselves postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
June 1, 2019 - Oct. 31, 2020 | N | ||||||
A | M | J | J | 8J4S | Smoke signal (or Noroshi) to Connect Hearts among Friends Not Met Yet
[Mobile] |
N | ||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | 8J1RION | Support for Kokubunji-city's "Host Town" (of Vietnam) for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
(by Rion Ham Club in Kokubunji-city, as RION: Relationship In Olympic Nations) [Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
Oct. 1, 2019 - Sept. 30, 2020 | N | |||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J0JY | The 100th Anniversary of "Time Day" (June 10)
The 80th Anniversary of a Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Station JJY |
Oct. |
N | |
A | M | J | J | 8J3EQ | The 25th Anniversary of Hanshin Awaji Great Earthquake
The 60th Anniversary of JARL Kobe Club |
Nov. 5, 2019 - July 16, 2020 | N | |||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | H | 8N6SHURI | Support for Shuri Castle Reconstruction | Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2020 | 2 | |||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | 8J3AKETI | Kameoka(-city), the Town of Kirin (or Kylin or Giraffe)
(A tourism promotion in connection with a historical drama television series "Kirin ga Kuru!" (or "Giraffe Comes!,") picturing the life of Aketchi Mitsuhide (1528-1582), a general, who based Kameoka-city for a period of time) |
Jan. 20 - Dec. 31, 2020 | N | ||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J4SANBE | The 71st National Tree-Planting Ceremony (Venue: Mt. Sanbe) [Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
Feb. 1, 2020 - May 30, 2021 |
N | |
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | 8J1MITO | Festivals in Mito(-city) | Feb. 23 - Oct. 31, 2020 | N | ||||||
A | 8J5TOBE | The 37th Tobe-yaki Porcelain Festival
[Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19| |
Mar. 1 - Apr. 19, 2020 | 2 | ||||||||||||
A | M | J | 8J3L130S | The 130th Anniversary of Japan-Turkey Friendship
(L: Frigate "Ertuğrul", distressed in 1890...actually not "El" but "Er;" S: Shunen (or Anniversary)) |
Mar. 1 - June 30, 2020 | 2 | ||||||||||
A | M | J | J | 8N3Q | The 25th Kansai(-region) Amateur Radio Festival "KANHAM (8N3Q ... Fixed, 8J3XXV ... Mobile) [Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
Mar. 28 - July 19, 2020 | 1 | |||||||||
8J3XXV | ||||||||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | 8J3DENPA | The 70th Anniversary of the Radio Related Three Laws
((1) Radio Law, (2) The Broadcast Act and (3) Radio Regulatory Commission Establishment Law) |
Mar. 31 - Nov. 30, 2020 | N | |||||
A | M | 8N2020S | The 30th Shizuoka Contest
[Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
Apr. 1 - May 4, 2020 | 2 | |||||||||||
A | M | H | 8J4ROSE | Fukuyama(-city) Rose Festival 2020 | Apr. 1 - May 17, 2020 | 2 | ||||||||||
A | M | J | 8J1ITAKO | The 69th Suigo Itako Ayame Matsuri (or Water District Itako(-city) Iris Festival)
[Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
Apr. 1 - June 30, 2020 | 2 | ||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | 8J2TKI | The 52nd Tokai(-district) Ham Festival
[Event itself gone online due to COVID-19] |
Apr. 1 - Aug. 23, 2020 | 1 | ||||||||
J | A | 8J2YAA | July 1 - Aug. 23, 2020 | E | ||||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | 8J1FUSSA | The 50th Anniversary of Fussa-city | Apr. 1 - Dec. 31, 2020 | N | ||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | 8J3ITAMI | The 80th Anniversary of Itami-city | Apr. 1 - Dec. 31, 2020 | N | ||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J0K | The 80th Anniversary of Kashiwazaki-city | Apr. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 |
N | |
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8N1S | The 10th Anniversary of a cabinet-order designated city Sagamihara | Apr. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | 2 | |
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J755T | The 55th Anniversary of the Reconstructed Central Tower of Tsuruga-jo Castle | Apr. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | N | |
A | M | J | J | A | S | 8J2Y | The 123rd Anniversary of Yokkaichi-city | Apr. 3 - Sept. 30, 2020 | N | |||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | 8J180TSU | The 80th Anniversary of Tsuchiura-city | Apr. 10 - Dec. 31, 2020 | 2 | ||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J17CALL | The 30th Anniversary of 7-call
(Prefixes 7K1-7N4 were issued 1990-04-23/2003-06-20) |
Apr. 23, 2020 - Apr. 22, 2021 | N | |
A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J1YAB | Aug. 3, 2020 - Apr. 22, 2021 | E | ||||||
A | M | J | 8J4VLP | QRP Day | Apr. 26 - June 30, 2020 | 1 | ||||||||||
A | M | J | J | 8J6VLP | Apr. 26 - July 31, 2020 | 1 | ||||||||||
A | M | J | 8J8VLP | Apr. 26 - June 30, 2020 | 1 | |||||||||||
A | M | J | 8J9VLP | Apr. 26 - June 30, 2020 | 1 | |||||||||||
M | 8J1ITU | World Telecommunication and Information Society Day | May 1 -31, 2020 | N | ||||||||||||
M | J | J | 8J0WA | JARL Nagano Prefectural Branch Meeting / Niigata Prefectural Branch Meeting
(0: Zero (or Rei). i.e. 0wa: Reiwa, the name of the new imperial era since May 1, 2019) [Event themselves cancelled due to COVID-19] |
May 1 - July 19, 2020 | 2 | ||||||||||
M | J | J | A | S | O | 8N1TRD | The 50th Anniversary of Toride-city | May 1 - Oct. 31, 2020 | 2 | |||||||
M | J | J | 8N3TOKI | The 60th Anniversary of Akashi(-city) Municipal Planetarium
The 100th Anniversary of "Time Day" (June 10) (Toki: Time) |
May 9 - July 12, 2020 | N | ||||||||||
J | J | A | S | O | N | 8J3ML | The 50th Anniversary of Moriyama-city | June 1 - Nov. 8, 2020 | 2 | |||||||
J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J150KYS | The 50th Anniversary of Kiyose-city | June 19, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | N | |||
J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J3YAA | Amateur Radio Activating Year 2020 | June 25, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | E | |||
J | 8N1HQ | 2020 IARU HF Championship
(1) Haga-gun ... AHM Volunteers Project HQ 10m-CW, 10m-Ph (2) Minato ... FEDXP Volunteers Group 160m-CW (3) Hachioji ... Mt. Hiyodori Contest Farm 80m-CW,40m-CW, 20m-CW, 20m-Ph,15m-Ph (4) Chita-gun…H&C Ham Club 40m-Ph (5) Aso-gun……Team Six 15m-CW (6) Sapporo ...JR8YLW 80m-Ph No QRV: |
July 1 - 12, 2020 | 1 | ||||||||||||
8N1HQ | 1 | |||||||||||||||
8N1HQ | 1 | |||||||||||||||
8N2HQ | 1 | |||||||||||||||
8N6HQ | 1 | |||||||||||||||
8N8HQ | 1 | |||||||||||||||
J | A | S | O | 8N5CLEAN | Clean Reception Environment Month | July 1 - Oct. 31, 2020 | 2 | |||||||||
O | 8J8CLN | Oct. 1-31, 2020 | 2 | |||||||||||||
O | 8N9C | Oct. 1-31, 2020 | 2 | |||||||||||||
S | O | 8N0CLN | Sept. 1 - Oct. 31, 2020 | 2 | ||||||||||||
J | A | S | O | N | D | 8N1Y | The Completion of New Yokohama City Hall Construction
The 161st Anniversary of opening of Port of Yokohama The 131st Anniversary of Yokohama-city |
July 1 - Dec. 31, 2020 | 2 | |||||||
J | A | S | O | N | D | 8N1ABIKO | The 50th Anniversary of Abiko-city | July 1 - Dec. 31, 2020 |
2 | |||||||
J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J1CBN | Adoption of the Name "Chibanian" for a Geomagnetic Reversal Layer | July 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | N | ||||
J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J4N | Smoke signal (or Noroshi) to Connect Hearts among Friends Not Met Yet
[Fixed] |
July 10, 2020 - July 11, 2021 | N | ||||
J | 8J1YAA | No. 888 of "CQ ham radio" magazine | July 17 - 25, 2020 | E | ||||||||||||
J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8N2OBU | The 50th Anniversaryo fo Obu-city | July 18, 2020 - |
N | ||||
A | 8J4YAA | Takebe-town Wireless IoT Club | Aug. 8 - 16, 2020 | E | ||||||||||||
A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J6YAA | Kyushu(-district) Amateur Radio Experience Station | Aug. 27, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | E | |||||
S | 8J4RFLJH | Fight Cancer Month Charity Event "Relay for Life Japan Hiroshima" | Sept. 1 - 30, 2020 | N | ||||||||||||
S | O | N | D | 8N1M | The 70th Anniversary of Mitaka-city | Sept. 1 - Dec. 31, 2020 | N | |||||||||
S | O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J2YAB | Shizuoka University MOT (Management of Technology) Suzuki Seminar | Sept. 16, 2020 - Sept. 30, 2021 | E | ||||||
S | O | N | 8J3YAB | Shiga Radio Station, Scout Association of Japan | Sept. 24 - Nov. 1, 2020 | E | ||||||||||
S | O | 8J7YGP | Yuru-Chara Grand Prix 2020 in Iwate(-prefecture)
(Yuru-Chara: a flappy character, or a cute design mascot character) |
Sept. 29 - Oct. 31, 2020 | N | |||||||||||
O | 8J1JOTA | Nippon Boy Scout Amateur Radio Club JOTA Experience Station | Oct. 1 - 31, 2020 | N E |
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O | N | D | J | F | M | 8N1IZA | The 50th Anniversary of Niiza-city | Oct. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | 2 | |||||||
O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J1JARL | JARL Kanto-district Amateur Radio Activating Campaign | Oct. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | E 2 |
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O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J3CAT | The 10th Anniversaryo of Konyan-city
(a virtual municipality on the Internet, by Konan-city; with implication of "nyan" (or "mew") as a cat) |
Oct. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | 2 | |||||||
O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J1TANA | The 15th Tanabata (or The Star Festival) Contest
(Tanabata (Festival): Celebration of the legendary meeting of the deities Orihime (represented by the star Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair) |
Oct. 1, 2020 - July 31, 2021 | N | |||||||
O | N | D | J | F | M | 8N4T | Nagai Takashi Memorial Hall
(a doctor and an author, 1908-1951) |
Oct. 2, 2020 - May 31, 2021 | N | |||||||
O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J6YAB | Fukuoka Institute of Technology Radio Club | Oct. 28, 2020 - Sept. 30, 2021 | E | |||||||
O | N | D | J | F | M | 8J1YAC | Zushi(-city) and Hayama(-town) Amateur Radio Club Communication Experience Station | Oct. 30, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | E | |||||||
N | D | J | F | M | 8J6JRC | Japan Red Cross Nagasaki JRC Amateur Radio Experience Station
(JRC: Junior Red Cross) |
Nov. 13, 2020 - May 31, 2021 | N E |
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N | D | 8J4YAB | JARL Tsuyama(-city) Amateur Radio Club | Nov. 21 - Dec. 20, 2020 | E | |||||||||||
D | J | F | M | 8J1SOUMU | The 20th Anniversary of the Central Government Restructuring and the Transformation into Independent Administrative Agencies
(Soumu: (Ministry of) Internal Affairs and Communications) |
Dec. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2022 | N | |||||||||
D | J | F | M | 8N3SG | Shigagakuen Junior & Senior High School ARISS School Contact | Dec. 23, 2020 - Mar. 22, 2021 | A | |||||||||
D | J | F | M | 8N1ZH | Zushi(-city) Hisagi Junior High Scool ARISS School Contact | Dec. 25, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2021 | A | |||||||||
J | F | M | 8J3ZNJ | The 50th Anniversary of Katsuragi Ham Club | Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2021 | N | ||||||||||
J | F | M | H | 8J2SUSON | The 50th Anniversary of Susono-city | Jan. 23 - Dec. 31, 2021 | N | |||||||||
J | F | M | H | 8N0J | The 50th Anniversary of Joetsu-city | Jan. 30, 2021 - Apr. 30, 2022 | N | |||||||||
F | M | 8J1YAD | Utsunomiya(-city) Boy Scout Troop 12 Experience Station | Feb. 1 - Apr. 4, 2021 | E | |||||||||||
F | M | 8J1MITO | Festivals in Mito | Feb. 12, 2021 - | N | |||||||||||
F | M | 8N0M | The 30th Anniversary of Kashiwazaki Marina | Feb. 15 - Oct. 31, 2021 | N | |||||||||||
M | 8N0ART | Opening of Nagano Prefectural Art Museum | Mar. 1 - Apr. 30, 2021 | 2 | ||||||||||||
M | 8J7100T | The 100th Anniversary of Tokuara-ko(or Lake Tokura) Embankment | Mar. 1 - June 10, 2021 | N | ||||||||||||
M | 8J7E | The 10th Anniversary of The Great East Japan Earthquake | Mar. 1 - June 30, 2021 | 2 | ||||||||||||
M | 8J7EQ | The Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial | Mar. 11, 2021 - | N | ||||||||||||
M | 8J6MATUE | "Tokakuji no Matsue," an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
(A Ritual of Shugendo) (Shugendo: Japanese mountain asceticism, incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts) [Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
2 | |||||||||||||
M | 8N3Q | The 25th Kansai(-region) Amateur Radio Festival "KANHAM (8N3Q ... Fixed, 8J3XXV ... Mobile) [Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
Mar. 27 - July 18, 2021 | 1 | ||||||||||||
8J3XXV | ||||||||||||||||
Operating Month(s) | W e b |
Call Sign |
Event | Accurate Operating Period |
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2020 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | |||||
Established but Not Operaeted | ||||||||||||||||
A | M | 8J4FF | [Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
Apr. 1 - May 5, 2020 | 2 | |||||||||||
A | M | J | J | A | S | 8J1OLYMPIC | Tokyo Olympic/Paralympic
(8N ... Fixed, 8J ... Mobile, 8N4OLYMPIC ... Two sites: Ube-city and Matsue-city, JA1TOKYO? ... Flagship Station) [Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19; Operations suspended and stations closed around the end of July; 8N3OLYMPIC and JA1TOKYO were not licensed] |
Apr. 1 - [July 21 - Aug. 2], 2020 | 1 | |||||||
8N1OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 13 - 15], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J2OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 17 - Aug. 4], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N2OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 17 - Aug. 4], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J4OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 20 - Aug. 4], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N4OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 10 - 19], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N4OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 10 - 19], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J5OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 15 - Aug. 4], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N5OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 15 - Aug. 4], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J6OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 29 - Aug. 5], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J7OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [Aug. 5 - 26], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J8OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [Aug. 6 - 31], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N8OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [Aug. 6 - 31], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J9OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 21 - 29], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N9OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 21 - 29], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8J0OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 20 - Aug. 2], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
8N0OLYMPIC | Apr. 1 - [July 20 - Aug. 2], 2020 | |||||||||||||||
A | 8J9YAA | Crossland Oyabe(-city) Amateur Radio Club's Demonstration
in the "Helicopter & Disaster/Crime Prevention Festival 2020" [Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
Aug. 21 - 23, 2020 | E | ||||||||||||
Announced but Cancelled | ||||||||||||||||
(A Ritual of Shugendo) (Shugendo: Japanese mountain asceticism, incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts) [Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
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(Dontaku: a Dutch word Zontag, meaning a holiday) [Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
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The 20th National Sports Festival for People with Disabilities [Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
1 | |||||||||||||||
[Event itself cancelled due to COVID-19] |
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[Event itself postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19] |
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[Snow Festival cancelled] |
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8J4HAM? | Ham Festa Kasaoka(-city) | N | ||||||||||||||
? | 8N1MOMO? | The 45th Koga(-city) Momo (or Peach) Festival | ||||||||||||||
? | 8J5TOBE? | The 38th Tobe-yaki Porcelain Festival | ||||||||||||||
? | ? | ? | ? | 8J6HAM? | The 20th West Japan Ham Fair
[Event itself temporarily postponed to Oct., 2021, due to a seismic retrofitting of the venue] |
(Dec. 1, 2020 - Mar. 7, 2021) | 1 |
Special-event stations celebrate spfic expositions, anniversaries and so on.
ARISS school contact stations can be guest-operated by non licensed elementary and junior high schoolers, only in the case of contacting International Space Station.
Both are eligible for a temporary 2×1-2×5 call sign with a prefix 8J or 8N (Exception: 8[J|N]#OLYMPIC・JA1TOKYO).
Experience temporary stations, sequentially assigned from 8J#YAA — the system was launched in 2020 — can be guest-operated by non licensed persons without an age limit.
Call signs and operating periods are subject to change. Furthermore, having possibilities to be cancelled. Information obtained from the web sites of JARL — HQ, district branches and prefectural branches —, local clubs, etc.
Please note that the following unique stations also share a 8J prefix, but on a permanent basis: