JD1BMH Chichi Jima Island Bonin Islands Ogasawara Islands
Hiroyuki, JG7PSJ will be active again as JD1BMH from Chichi Jima Island, IOTA AS-031, Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, 1 - 9 November 2025. He will operate on 40 - 10m CW, SSB, RTTY.Recent DX Spots JD1BMH QSL via JD1BMH buro or via JG7PSJ direct. Ads for direct QSL: Hiroyuki Kawanobe, 1-4-1, Mikamine, Taihaku, Sendai, Miyagi 982-0826, Japan. Chichi Jima is situated in Ogasawara Archipelago. It is popularly known as Peel island. Since the 19th century, it has been part of Bonin Islands. As an area in Japan, the population is 2000 people in a vast land of 24 km2. Island group that included Chichi Jima island was French owned. It was not habited until a few decades after. ChiChi climate is a mix of humid and tropical climates. The warm temperature can be really humid throughout the year. But it is never below 7 Degrees of Celsius. The rain can fall all year round but at Chichi Jima, it does not rain heavily like other part of the archipelago. The discovery of Chichi Jima island happened in the year 1543. The excavations proved that Micronesian population had lived there for many years but there is not much details that would shed more light on their culture and life on the island. An expedition performed by the Tokugawa Shogunate officially discovered the island and mapped it but it was uninhabited until May 1830.
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