Five Nine

 Five Nine

This was a Japan-based magazine published in Japanese and mainly distributed in Japan. The magazine's name was derived from the international amateur radio R-S-T system, used to report the quality of received signals, with 59 indicating the highest level of signal readability and signal strength. The magazine was published on a monthly basis in Tokyo, covering the topics of radio contesting and D-Xing in amateur radio. Moreover, the magazine organized, adjudicated, and published the results of an annual international radio competition, the Japan International DX Contest, which focused on encouraging communications between amateur radio stations in Japan with other amateur radio stations around the world. The magazine was first published in 1986 by editor-in-chief Jaiely and ceased publication in September 2014. As stated by their main website, the main contents of the magazine were band columns that conveyed the state of each band, DX contest information, technical information, operation notes of DX-pedition, special articles on antennas and radio wave propagation, and rigs, monthly DX reports, and other JARL movements. The reason for the suspension of the magazine’s publications was not clearly stated.