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Packet-radio version of the 2nd circular,
issued by the World Scout Bureau for the 41st JOTA.
To;
Interested scout groups
Amateur radio clubs
41st Jamboree-On-The-Air, 17 - 18 October 1998 !! Dear
colleagues,
This is a final reminder that the 41st JOTA will be held over
the weekend of 17 and 18 October 1998.
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. Details of the JOTA organization were already
published in our first JOTA circular 15/98, issued in June 1998.
Please read this circular again and check it for important
details. HB9S activities. The radio station of the World Scout
Bureau, HB9S, will operate this year from its home in Geneva,
Switzerland. The operator team will consist of Yves Margot,
HB9AOF, Richard Middelkoop, PA3BAR, other World Bureau staff
members and an international team of scout radio amateurs. The
radio station will start to operate during the Friday evening
and will continue during most of the Saturday and Sunday, with
short breaks during the night. Transmitters will be on the air
simultaneously on the 10/15/20 metre, 160/80/40 metre and 0.7/2
metre bands, mostly on or nearby the world scout frequencies. It
can be reached by packet-radio at the address: HB9S@HB9IAP. You
may send requests for skeds in advance to the station manager
Yves Margot, HB9AOF@HB9IAP. Please note the propagation
predictions when selecting sked times. Making a contact with
HB9S takes some patience in practice. Usually many stations are
calling at the same time. Please follow the instructions given
by the operators and do not interfere with on-going contacts.
The operators will do the best they can to make contact with
scout stations world-wide and speak to scouts in as many
languages as possible.
Blind date JOTA party.
This is a JOTA
activity for all those participants going to the World Jamboree
in Chile. If you are part of your national Jamboree contingent,
here's what you do:
- during the JOTA, make a radio contact with a
scout in another country who will also go to Chile.
- fill out
the QSL card and clearly write the name of the scout you
contacted on the card.
- take this QSL card with you to the World
Jamboree in Chile next December.
- find the scout you talked to.
- together come to the amateur radio station of the Jamboree and
receive your special blind-date award plus a surprise present.
Difficult to find your radio friend amongst 30.000 other scouts?
Well, the crew of the amateur radio station will host a
"blind-date JOTA party"on Wednesday evening December 30. Come to
the station and you will find your friend and many more. Any
means to pre-arrange a radio contact with scouts in other
countries are allowed, e.g. by letter, email, packet. As long as
you establish, during the JOTA weekend,.a valid amateur radio
contact with a scout going to the World Jamboree.
World Jamboree Net
If you take part in the JOTA blind date, or if you just want to
talk to scouts going to Chile in December, we propose to meet in
a World Jamboree Net during the JOTA weekend. Since
long-distance contacts are not always possible, the following
skedule is made for Saturday 17 October, on the frequency 14.270
MHz ( 20 kHz below the scout frequency):
Europe & Africa 1500 GMT
Asia 1200 GMT
South-East Asia & Australia 0500 GMT
North & South America` 2100 GMT
World-wide` 2000 GMT (give it a try and see who you can reach)
HB9S will take part from Geneva in the European and world-wide
Jamboree Nets.
New JOTA logo's
Each year the JOTA has a new annual logo on its participation card.
We welcome suggestions from all the participants for the logo
for the coming years. An idea for an extra activity during the
weekend is to organize a logo design contest with your scout
group.
National JOTA Reports.
JOTA organizers are requested to
send a report to the World Scout Bureau soon after the event.
A report form for the 41st JOTA has been mailed to all National
Headquarters. The World Bureau is very much interested to get an
impression of what the JOTA was like in your country. Please put
your ideas and comments, suggestions for future programmes and
description of the most important and interesting contacts that
were made in your National JOTA report. A summary of it will be
published in the World JOTA Report, of which each NJO and Scout
Association will receive a copy. Please feel free to include any other
information on separate papers. Since the JOTA is not a
competition, you do not need to send a copy of the radio logbook
showing every contact you made. We do appreciate to read your
description of the most interesting contacts you made.
Photographs are especially appreciated. Photo's, showing scouts
in uniform at the microphone and of other activities like
electronic kitbuilding, foxhunting, semaphore, map plotting and
the like are most welcome. And how about the self-constructed
masts and antennas or a station set up at an unusual location?
We're curious to see them. The World Report editor would very
much appreciate it if you could send any additional report text
in English on a computer disk or via email. You may use any
MS-DOS or Macintosh formatted disk with the text in ASCII format
or formatted according to any popular word processor.
Alternatively, you may use electronic mail and send your file
to: JOTA@world.scout.org. Clearly mention "JOTA Report" in the
subject line.. In any case, send your report to the World Scout
Bureau before the 31st of December 1997 !!
XR3J on the air from Chile.....
The 19th World Jamboree will take place in Chile, 27
December 1988 - 8 January 1999. Ever since 1957, a World
Jamboree has been equipped with an amateur radio station..Of
course, the 19th World Jamboree is no exception.. The Chilean
authorities have awarded the special-event call sign XR3J to the
station. For the first time ever, the staff who prepares and
carries out the programme is entirely an international team.
This means that radio-scouting expertise from the entire world
is being brought together to run this station. The staff
includes 5 national JOTA organisers from different countries,
several national radio scouting team members, experienced World
Jamboree radio operators and the World JOTA Team. The Amateur
Radio activity area at the Jamboree offers exciting activities
to participants:
Besides active participation in radio contacts, the station
offers time-zone calculation, computer logging of contacts, a
six-position short wave reception station, packet-radio
operations, experiments with telex (RTTY) and slow-scan
television (SSTV). At the electronics workshop Scouts construct
their own electronic kit. This activity offers an introduction
to electronics, hands-on experience with putting together your
own electronic circuit and the thrill of seeing it work at the
first try. The biggest challenge will be the World Jamboree
radio fox hunt. How do you find the hidden transmitters in this
tent city in between the mountains? The fox hunt will be done on
the 80 m band. Pre-arranging a contact with the World Jamboree
is of course possible.. Ask your radio amateur about the best
time of the day, in view of the radio propagation. To check
whether you can make contact with South-America from any part in
the world, listen for a radio beacon that is located in
Argentina. If you can hear this beacon, then the Jamboree
station is most likely to hear you ! The beacon LU1AA transmits
in a 3-minute sequence on the frequencies 14.100 MHz, 18.110
MHz, 21.150 MHz, 24.930 MHz and 28.200 MHz. It sends its call
sign in Morse code at 22 words per minute, followed by 4 dashes
of 1 second length. See if you can find the beacon during the
JOTA weekend. You may send your request for pre-arranged skeds
via packet radio to the station manager: PA3BAR @ PI8AWT or via
email: PA3BAR @ Amsat.org. Clearly state your call sign, date
between 27 Dec. 98 and 07 Jan 99, frequency and time in GMT. A
connection to Internet is currently under consideration. If this
works out, you can see on the Jamboree web site the actual
frequencies where the station is operating. This will make it
very easy to find it on the short-wave bands. The precise
packet-radio address of XR3J and any further details will be
published in the November circular. Last-minute information.
This circular is the last information you receive before the
JOTA weekend. If there is any last-minute information of general
interest, it will be distributed electronically. Check the
SCOUTS@WW directory of your local packet-radio bbs and the WOSM
web site on internet at URL http://www.scout.org.
Finally.
The JOTA is an excellent opportunity to meet Scouts, Guides and
others from many countries. Exchange ideas, learn about other
cultures and habits and make new friends. And in particular,
arrange for a meeting during the World Jamboree in Chile. I
wish you all a most enjoyable weekend.
Richard Middelkoop
PA3BAR
World JOTA Team Geneva
Via PI8AWT.#GRO.NLD.EU - MailBox Groningen in Delfzijl, JO33kh
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