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August 1999.
Packet-radio version of the 2nd JOTA information circular.
World Scout Bureau, Geneva.
42nd Jamboree-On-The-Air, 16 - 17 October 1999 !!
Dear colleagues,
This is a final reminder that the 42nd JOTA will be held over
the weekend of 16 and 17 October 1999.
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 12/99, issued in July 1999. 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, by packet HB9AOF@HB9IAP or email margoty@capp.ch..
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.
New JOTA logo's.
Each year the JOTA has a new annual logo on its
participation card. In the past years we received good
suggestions from notably Mexico and Turkey and a few other
countries. 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. Simple designs,in black-and-white, without
too many fine detailed lines that may not reproduce well, have a
preference. If you like to draw and send them electronically, we
can handle JPEG or compressed TIF files of maximum 500 kb.
John Bont Millennium game.
The 42nd JOTA has an international
communications game. Details to be found in the appendix of the
JOTA circular 12/99. For this puzzling game, the World Scout
Bureau's amateur radio station HB9S will transmit a group of 4
numbers that you need to find the solution. Once you received
this group of numbers, you may pass them on to other scout
stations, but only by two-way radio, so not via a packet-bbs or
internet. HB9S will.on request, give out the numbers during
each contact it has with a scout station and will also transmit
them at the following times and frequencies on Saturday 16
October: 0000 GMT at 3.740 MHz 0700 GMT at 7.090 MHz 0900 GMT at
14.290 MHz 1400 GMT at 28.390 MHz 1600 GMT at 21.360 MHz 2000
GMT at 3.740 MHz Note that exact frequencies may vary +/- 5 kHz
due to interference from other stations.
Electronic kit building: design competition.
Constructing
simple electronic circuits can be quite a fun activity, not only
during JOTA. It is becoming increasingly popular and has a clear
educational value to it. To further stimulate your creativity,
the 42nd JOTA has a design competition: design a circuit that
can easily be built by scouts and is fun to operate. The
competition rules are outlined in our JOTA circular 12/99.
Participation Cards.
This year's participation cards are mailed separately to the
National Scout Organisations. The intend is that each
participating station receives its card, as a confirmation of
its participation and a souvenir of the event. The drawing is a
design by Dilek Avci form Turkey. It emphazises the importance
of computers in modern communications. As such, it concurrs very
well with the millennium communication game of this 42nd JOTA.
National JOTA Reports.
JOTA organizers are kindly requested to
send a report to the World Scout Bureau soon after the event.
Enclosed with this circular is the report form for the 42nd
JOTA. As announced in our previous circular, the report form is
also available in electronic form, in PDF format. It will be
emailed to all NJO's with an email address known to us. Soon
after publication of this circular, the form can also be
downloaded from the WOSM web server at: www.scout.org/jota.
Currently it is not yet possible to fill out your JOTA report
on-line. 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. The figures that are requested
on the report form will be used to compile some statistics. A
reasonable estimate would be appreciated if they cannot be
specified accurately. 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 / Windows formatted disk with the text in ASCII format or
formatted according to any popular word processor. You can use
electronic mail and send your file to: PA3BAR@Amsat.org. Maximum
email file size is 500 kb. Clearly mention "JOTA Report" in the
subject line..
In any case, send your report to the World Scout Bureau before
the 31st of December 1999 !!
Scout Radio Newsletter.
Since over a decade, volunteers in the
United Kingdom publish a newsletter on JOTA and radio scouting.
It is very informative and enjoys an audience not only in the UK
but also in many countries around the world. It appears 4 times
a year. Malcolm Bell has just taken over as the new editor and
opened an emailbox where news contribution to the newsletter can
be send: scoutradio.news@lineone.net. For information on
subscription, contact Geoff Dellbridge: geoff@proj13.demon.co.uk.
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 to National JOTA Organizers with an email address
known to us. Also check the SCOUTS@WW directory of your local
packet-radio bbs and the WOSM web site on internet at URL
http://www.scout.org/jota.
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. I wish
you all a most enjoyable weekend.
Sincerely,
Richard Middelkoop
PA3BAR
World JOTA Team
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