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This is a packet-radio version of the first JOTA circular issued in May 1997.
For the latest details refer to the latest October circular.
Circular No.10/97 Geneva, May 1997.
In this circular please find the first announcement and the information for
the largest annual WOSM event, the Jamboree-On-The-Air (JOTA). The JOTA will
be held this year for the 40th time during the weekend of 18 and 19 October
1997. And 40 years of world-wide communication between scouts of all nations
calls for a celebration !! This circular is full of jubilee program ideas,
a 40th JOTA electronic kit, a history overview and much more.
What is the Jamboree-On-The-Air ?
The JOTA is an annual event in which about 500,000 Scouts and Guides all
over the world make contact with each other by means of amateur radio.
It is a real Jamboree during which Scouting experiences are exchanged and
ideas are shared, thus contributing to the world brotherhood of Scouting.
The JOTA is a world-wide event. Units may operate for 48 hours or any part
thereof, from Saturday 00.00 h until Sunday 24.00 h local time.
A leaflet describing the JOTA participation in detail can be ordered in
English, French, Spanish or Russian from the World Scout Bureau, ref.nr 1311.
How to take part ?
a) visit an amateur radio station with your scout group or invite a
radio amateur to install his station in your scout building;
b) call "CQ Jamboree" or answer scout stations calling to establish a
contact;
c) all radio stations must strictly observe the national amateur radio
regulations;
d) any authorised frequency may be used. It is recommended that stations
use the agreed World Scout Frequencies or frequencies close by to
find each other.
The 40th JOTA jubilee program
Here are the program ideas for the 40th jubilee JOTA:
The logo hunt
Since 1959 each JOTA has had a different participation card. So there are 39
of them. Each of these designs has been digitalized and is stored on an
internet webserver somewhere in the world. Some servers may even carry more
than one JOTA card. Try to collect them all by surfing the web and asking
around by radio. Hint: start at the WOSM web server http:\\ www. scout.org.
Have you got them all? Print them on two A4-size pages, put your group name
on it and telefax them to the World Bureau in Geneva ( +41 22 320 4233).
First come gets first prize.
The missing card...
There is no participation card for the first JOTA held on 10 and 11 May in
1958. To complete the collection scouts can design one. Make a design how
you think it should have looked like back in 1958. You can use the cards of
subsequent years to get the basic idea. Send your design along with the
national JOTA report to the World Bureau in Geneva. We will ask Les Mitchell
to choose the best one after the JOTA.
The 40 craze.
Everything with 40. Work 40 countries, operate at least 40 hours, collect 40
different recipes of JOTA meals, contact 40 leaders with age 40, sing 40
songs over the radio, invite 40 non-members and let them take part in
Scouting for the next 40 days, make 40 small birthday cakes and present them
to local authorities who were helpfull to your scout group, create 40 new
40-ideas and put them on the nearest web server on internet.
Where old meets new.
Set up an amateur radio station with equipment from the 50’s and 60’s. An
amateur radio museum may help you do this. Note that you will require more
space than with modern equipment. Next to these old radio’s you set up a
modern packet-radio system or a computer connected to internet. Organise a
session on technology development during the past 40 years.
Thank you radio amateurs....
Invite speakers from amateur radio organisations. who helped to run the JOTA
for so many years and ask them about their experiences. How about a
celebration party? Instead of a competition for the highest antenna mast,
who can make the largest 40th-birthday cake this time?
Display.
Set up a display of photographs of the JOTA and Scouting program during the
past 40 years. Have you still got the pieces of that antenna that fell of
the mast in 1963?
This too is Scouting
Invite the local press to your station. Issue a press release some weeks
before the JOTA. Emphazise the modern communication possibilities and
explain how a world-wide organisation like WOSM uses these to bring its
members into contact with one-another. Communication between youngsters of
different nations fosters mutual understanding and respect.
The JOTA guest book.
The World Bureau will install a special JOTA guest book on its email server
in Geneva. You can officially sign our guestbook by sending a message to:
JOTA@world.scout.org or alternatively via packet radio to:
HB9AOF@HB9IAP.SROM.CHE.EU.
The surprise radio message.
This is a bit more complicated, but it can be done with some technical
assistance of your operators. Set up a short-wave receiver that is
controlled by a computer, e.g. via an RS 232 interface. Connect the computer
to internet. Announce on a scouting web site or via email to different scout
groups how scouts can contol the receiver via internet. Ask those scout
stations to tune your receiver via internet to the frequency they want and
then transmit on that frequency with an amateur radio set. Are you receiving
them? Without having to search the bands yourself, you can suddenly get all
sorts of scout voices in your radio room. Surprise!
How it all started: the birth of the JOTA 40 years ago.
In 1957, a World Scout Jamboree was held in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham
in Central England, with 35.000 Scouts from 62 countries attending. For the
first time at any World Jamboree local radio amateurs installed and operated
a large station under the call sign GB3SP. Ever since, each World Jamboree
has had an amateur radio station on the site. Some 60 operators manned GB3SP
and made 1712 contacts to 71 different countries. Despite the fact that
unlicenced persons were not allowed to speak on the radio, the authorities
did allow short hourly broadcast.
The station in fact was crammed with visitors every day, since the Jamboree
was held in a public park and access could not be restricted. A young
scoutmaster, himself a radio amateur, was surprised by the number of
overseas scout radio amateurs attending the Jamboree and decided that some
effort should be made to bring them all together. A notice in the Jamboree
newspaper reulted in daily coffee meetings which were held just
outside the park gates in a snackbar. This scout master, of course, was
Les Mitchell, G3BHK. It was at one of these meetings that the group decided
to meet on the air during one weekend a year.
Les however realised that such a venture would be doomed to failure and that
it might be a better idea to get scouts everywhere involved in it. There
would be plenty of other scout stations to talk to if the original coffee
meeting scout amateurs would not be able to contact eachother. The group
agreed to put it to a test. The trial was held involving two scout groups,
by running a station for 12 hours in October 1957 in a tent on the grounds
of the 79th Reading Scout group, the group that Les Mitchell belonged to.
With a simple single wire antenna and a 40 Watt AM transmitter they made
contacts all over the world. It was obvious that the interest was such that
a world-wide radio jamboree could be envisaged. Les called the event a
Jamboree On The Air, as he felt it described excactly what it was. He drew
up a few simple rules for it, in fact, they were so simple and practical that
they have remained unchanged ever since.
The first JOTA was held 10 and 11 May 1958. Les Mitchell again ran a station
with the 79th Reading Scouts. Subsequentely Les asked the World Scout Bureau,
then located in Ottawa, to take over the organization and the JOTA was there
to stay.
Sincerely,
Richard Middelkoop, PA3BAR
World JOTA Team
pa3bar @ amsat.org
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