12.  ¡°Congratulations on KLARC News Letter ¡°  
                                                                       JJ1CAS  Hiromi Hishiki

I congratulate all HL hams on the issue of KLARC News Letter. It  is my great
honor to inform the  HL YLs and  OMs of our  activities in JA, thanks  to the
kindness of  HL2KDW Ms. Chae, Do Sook.
First of all, please allow me to introduce myself to you. I am  the 1st Class
Amateur Radio  Station and  licensed  on 1976.  Now, I  am  one of  member of
Amateur Radio Emergency Service of JARL, JAIG, JANET, YLRL, JLRS, and  one of the organizers of ¡°Asian  YL Meeting¡¯93  in  Osaka¡±. My experiences of  DX
Expeditions were JJ1CAS/JD1, DL/JJ1CAS, KH0/JJ1CAS, JW/JJ1CAS  and OH/JJ1CAS.
In the near future, I wish to try my operation from your country. My Motto is
¡°Let¡¯s enjoy the ham life peacefully  both on the air and the  ground.¡± My
apparatus features  YAESU  FT-990 Transceiver  and  Cushcraft R-6000 Antenna
15mH. My favorite frequencies are 14 and 21 MHz mainly.
The most wonderful thing in my ham life was that HL YLs joined  in ¡°Asian YL
Meeting¡¯93 in  Osaka¡± They  are  HL1KDW(new one  HL2KDW?), HL1ASD,   HL1ALT, HL1AZK, HL1KRR,   HL1LAV, HL1KDL.,  HL1LSQ,  HL1MEZ,  HL2IPH.   Because, the organizers, Miyo  JR3MVF,  Nozomi JH3SQN   and I decided   to call  our first International YL Meeting  in Japan  as ¡°Asian  YL Meeting¡±,  not as   ¡°The International YL Meeting¡± Our  hope was that many  Asian YLs would  join us.  Therefore, you can easily understand how happy we were with many participants from the neighbor country, Korea in 1993.
My recent activities  are to  contact DX  YLs and  join the  International YL
meetings.  I am  very pleased  to support  any International  YL meetings   to
announce them to JA Hams on the  magazines or to public at any Ham  events in Japan. During the Ham Fair  ¡®99 in Yokohama, last August,I  distributed many
pamphlets of the YL2000 in Hamilton  to the visitors from the JAIG  booth, as
per attached the picture.

At the  beginning of  1998, JARL  invited the  public contribution  of thesis
which titled as ¡°For the Further Development among JA YL hams¡±. In March, I
won the prize  of my  thesis and  received the  reward amounting  to \50,000,
which surprisingly  equaled  to  the similar  amount for  the  round trip  of
HL-JA. (HiHI)
I am one of the  members of JLRS (Japan  Ladies Radio Society) which  has 335
members including 24 family one at  the moment on July 99. On  July 25, 1999,
the 42th Convention  was held with  200 members  and guests at  Beppu, Kyushu Island,. Every two years, the headquarter has been changed at each Area. This
time, the  head quarter has been moved from the southern 6 Area,(Kyushu  Is.)
to the northern 8 Area(Hokkaido Is.).   Ms. Masako Izumi JA8AQY newly  became the president until 2001. We make  the Party Contests twice a year,  on Phone
every September,   and on  CW  every October.   As any  hams  can  join these
contests, I expect your participation.
Taking this opportunity, I would  like to express my deepest  appreciation to
the related HL YLs and OMs  for the kindness and hospitality when  I  visited
Women¡¯s  Center,  City  Office  in   Taejon,  the  Fusan  facilities,   the
Independence Hall of Korea  in Ch¡¯onan,  KWDI and KWI etc. in Seoul, at  the
end of October  1998. At  that time,  I was the  leader of  Ota-City Women¡¯s
Foreign Study trip  sponsored by the  Equality between  women and men  of the
City of Ota, Tokyo, So, I missed the chance of enjoying the radio.  But,  Ms.
Chae kindly visited me at the Seoul Hilton Hotel.
Whenever I meet HL YLs,  I am very impressed with your friendly, cheerful and
beautiful smiles, dancing, songs and  traditional dresses.  I am always  sure
that the HL YLs will be able to organize the most wonderful  International YL
meeting in the near future.  I am expecting it as my dream.
At the end, I sincerely hope that our relationship between HL and  JA hams on
the Radio will be  further strengthened and developed.   Best wishes to you,
your family and members.
Thanks &  33