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This is the abrieveated packet radio version of the November
JOTA circular,
published by the World Scout Bureau. Geneva, November 1998.
41st Jamboree-On-The-Air, 17 - 18 October 1998.
Dear colleagues,
This is a final reminder that the National JOTA Reports of the
41st JOTA need to be received in Geneva by the 31st of December
1998.
National JOTA Reports.
A National JOTA Report gives an
impression of what the JOTA was like in your country. Radio
contacts fade away, the impression it made on the youngsters
remains. We value your ideas and comments, suggestions for
future programmes and descriptions of the most important and
exiting contacts that were made. A summary of your report will
be published in the World JOTA Report. National JOTA organizers
are kindly asked to send a report on the 41st JOTA to the World
Scout Bureau at this time. A report form for the 41st JOTA has
been enclosed with the JOTA circular 18/98 of last August.
World Scout Bureau station HB9S .
The amateur radio station of the World Scout Bureau operated
from Geneva for the 41st JOTA. Here's what the operators told
us afterwards:
At last the bands opened up. We all enjoyed the best radio propagation
conditions since 5 years. Not only were we able to make contact
to many scout stations, we also renewed the contact with scouts
we hadn't heard on the radio for the past few years. We had a
long and stable half-an-hour contact with the Scout group in
Kalgoorlie, Australia. VK6SZ operator Bill put Mathew, Trevor
and Glenn on the microphone. The 10 year old cub scouts told us
about the mining area and the 600 km long water line from which
Kalgoorlie gets it drinking water. The town gets 25 cm of rain
during the year, which is obviously not enough to support its
population. The fastest QSL card we have ever seen deliverd
came from Tokyo. After our enjoyable contact with JA1YSS at the
scout HQ, we received a picture of the Japanese scouts talking
to us within half an hour. Yes, by email. The African Regional
Office at Rowallan Camp in Nairobi Kenya was on the air with
5Z4KSA. We learned about the weekend camp of 200 scouts there
and the mortar-mesh buildings erected on the site. An
enthusiastic contact came from Tarec and Said at SU1JOTA. They
transmitted from the Arab Regional Scout Centre in Cairo. Tarec
told us that he had an international group of radio amateurs
operating, from as far away as Tunesia. A surprise was the
contact with VR98SS in Hong Kong. Operator Motoi, himself a
scouter from Japan, could describe in detail the Jubilee
Jamboree camp he had attended as a scout in Holland in 1985.
Very strong signals from Santiago,
Chile gave us confidence that we will hear the World Jamboree
station from Chile in Europe in December. Towards the end of
the weekend we talked to a radio operator in Sweden at SK7DF; he
said he was the only one still awake, the scouts were sleeping
on the very table that he had his radio on......
The World Scout Jamboree in Chile on the air!
From 27 December to 6 January the amateur radio station of the
World Scout Jamboree will be on the air from the Hacienda Picarquin.
The station has
the unique call sign XR3J. It is on the air continuously during
the entire camp and operates 24 hours a day. It is able to make
long distance contacts, as well as local ones. The radio
scouting programme that is offered to the participating scouts:
a free radio-activity passport for every visitor with a choice
of exiting activities.
Scouts can make world-wide
short-wave radio contacts using powerful transmitters. with the
short-wave reception station scouts can listen to any broadcast
on the world. Several broadcast stations transmit messages for
scouts at the Jamboree at certain times. a daily Morse-code
competition lets them win a prize. in the Jamboree foxhunt
scouts can locate the 6 hidden transmitters on the campsite, by
using a special portable receiver on the 80 m band. Who is the
fastest one to find them all?
Slow-scan television pictures (SSTV) can be transmitted via
short-wave radio. They can be received world-wide. Bring your
favourite picture of the Jamboree. The Jamboree station
connects to the international packet-radio network and can send
messages anywhere in the world. When messages destined to
Jamboree participants are received, they will be delivered to
their subcamps as a "Jamboree radiogram". completion of any set
of 5 radio activities entitles scouts to build their own
flashing Jamboree name badge. With a soldering iron and a few
utensils, it takes them less than half-an-hour to get it working
at the first try. A battery is included. The Jamboree amateur
radio team invites all foreign
scout radio amateurs at the Jamboree to join in the
international hamfest meeting on Saturday, January 2 at the
amateur radio station XR3J at 20.00 hours.
The radio station
will concentrate on the World Scout Frequencies: 28.990 MHz,
21.360 MHz, 14.290 MHz, 7.090 MHz and 3.740 MHz. Conditions will
allow long-distance contacts. Experiments have shown that the
large Andes mountains around the camp site do NOT block the
radio signals.
Requests for prearranged skeds should reach the station manager
by 15 December 98 at the latest. Send your sked by email or
packet, including date, time in GMT, call sign and frequency.
Email: pa3bar@amsat.org. Packet: pa3bar@pi8awt.
The latest news of the radio station is published at the web site:
www.qsl.net/xr3j
This site will be updated from Chile with pictures, propagation info,
skeds and, if technically possible, the actual frequency where XR3J
is listening at a given moment. So look for this web site during the
event!
Change in World Scout Frequencies.
The coming years the propagation conditions on the 15 m and the 10 m
amateur radio bands will improve quite drastically.
Long-distance contacts of good quality will again be possible.
This is due to the increased activity of the sun. During the
JOTA and other events we have noted that the designated Scout
frequency in the 10 m band, 28.990 MHz, is in a less active part
of the band. Is has been there for no other than historic
reasons. We are going to change that frequency. We propose the
frequency: 28.390 MHz.
The new frequency will be in effect after
publication in the next World JOTA Report.
Looking forward to see your JOTA stories,
Richard, PA3BAR
World JOTA Team.
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