Xref: bernina rec.scouting:6393 Path: bernina!scsing.switch.ch!news.univie.ac.at!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: janez.lovsin@uni-lj.si Newsgroups: rec.scouting Subject: JOTA 93, circular letter Date: 22 Jun 1993 00:10:14 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 154 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <0096E654.3F8328C0.12678@uni-lj.si> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu Crossposted by Janez, s56flo @ s50box.svn.eu alias janez.lovsin@uni-lj.si SCOUTS @WW de:PA3BAR 09.05.93 17:14 100 8141 Bytes 36 JOTA Circular *** Bulletin-ID: 33324_PI8EAE *** 930509/1708z DB0FP , 930509/1708z DB0DNI, 930509/1658z DB0EAM 930509/1610z DK0MWX, 930509/1606z DB0SGL, 930509/1558z DB0HAG 930509/1541z DB0OVN, 930509/1538Z PI8JOP, 930509/2120Z PI8ZAA 930509/1448Z PI8HWB, 930508/2055z PI8EAE JOTA Circular No. 1/1993 World Scout Bureau Geneva, May 1993. 36th Jamboree-On-The-Air, 16 - 17 October 1993. Dear Radio-Scouts, In this circular please find the first announcement and the information for the largest annual event of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement, the Jamboree-On-The-Air (JOTA). The JOTA will be held this year for the 36th time during the weekend of 16 and 17 October 1993. This packet-radio circular is an abbreviated version of the JOTA circular that has been sent to National JOTA Organizers (NJO's), containing only the information relevant to licenced (scout) radio-amateurs. What is the Jamboree-On-The-Air ? The JOTA is an annual event in which about 425,000 Scouts and Guides all over the world speak to each other by means of amateur radio contacts. Scouting experiences are exchanged and ideas are shared, via the radio waves. 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. 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. e) all participating groups are asked to send a report of their activities to their National JOTA Organizer (NJO) after the event. World Scout Frequencies: band QRG (in MHz) 10 m 28.990 12 m 24.960 15 m 21.360 17 m 18.140 20 m 14.290 40 m 7.090 80 m 3.740 Programme ideas. A number of JOTA programme ideas is featured in the 35th World JOTA Report. Here are some additional ones to stimulate your imagination and creativity: * The continuing story.... Make up a short imaginative story of ten lines. Read it to the station with whom you are in contact. Ask them to add the next part to this story and pass it on to the next scout station that they will contact. If you receive such a story by radio from another scout group, write it down in your station report afterwards. This activity is also very well suited for RTTY (telex) and packet-radio contacts. * The global weather situation. Take a large wall map of the whole world. Ask the scouts whom you speak to, to give you the local weather report. Indicate this on the map for the area where they are located. A weather report in a local newspaper will show you how to do this on a map. At the end of the weekend you have the global weather view. * Distances. Determine the distance of each radio contact that you make and add them all up. Can you reach 100.000 km in one JOTA weekend ? * A radio picture. Make simple drawing. Give instructions by radio to scouts at the other end how to draw the same picture, line by line, without telling them what the picture is. Can they reconstruct your drawing and tell you what it is ? * Super antenna. Each scout patrol gets 20 metres of ordinary electrical wire. Can they construct a "super antenna", to their imagination, with which the radio operator can make a contact ? * String telephone. Make a hole in the bottom of two empty tin cans. Put a string of about 20 meter long through this hole on both sides and make a small knot so that it won't slip out. When you pull the string tight and speak into the can on one end, you will hear the sound in the can on the other end. * Prefix game. Make 40 small cards with one country prefix on each card. Put an amateur radio prefix map on the wall. Four, or six players each get a coloured pin which they place in the country on the map where you are at the time. Shake the small cards. Each player takes one card. He or she then places his pin in the country whose prefix is on the small card. When all players had their turn, take the next card and so on. The player that has travelled the largest distance after playing for 15 minutes wins the game. More information. The National JOTA Organizer (NJO) of the Scout Association in each participating country receives JOTA info bulletins from the World Scout Bureau. The World Scout Bureau also has the following leaflets available that can be ordered via your National Scout Association: - JOTA,how to take part in this annual activity; edition 1993. WSB ref.nr 1311. - HB9S,the amateur radio station at the World Scout Bureau. WSB ref.nr 1312. - The JOTA story, a history of the first 35 years, by Len Jarrett, available as of next August. The World JOTA Report (ref. nr 1310) of the 35th JOTA was published in March and sent to all Scout Associations. It contains statistical information on the JOTA participation, activity reports from more than 40 countries, a selection of newspaper articles and new programme ideas. The report is in English with a French summary. Additional copies can be ordered via your National Scout Association. Consult your NJO. ------------------------------------------------------ Summer camp activities. The following radio stations, operating from Scout summer camps, were known at the time of print: July 01 - 09 OZ1JAM 28th WAGGGS World Conference, Nyborg, Denmark. July 02 - 04 GB0BCR Buckingham Cub Scout Ralley, Gilwell Park, UK. July 10 - 18 VE6CJ 8th Canadian Jamboree, Kananaskis County, Alberta, Canada. Jul-Aug 31 - 07 LA1NSF National Jamboree, Ingelsrud Campsite,Eidskog, Norway. Aug. 04 - 10 K2BSA National Scout Jamboree, Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, USA. Aug. 07 - 15 ED1SDG Galicia '93, Rover Moot, Santiago de Compostella, Spain. Sept. 18 - 19 GX4PSG Leaders activity weekend, Prestwood, UK. To easily find these summer camp stations, listen around the world scout frequencies. Scout stations in the European Region are asked to call CQ SCOUT daily during July and August for the "summer camp sked": 07.00 GMT at 7.090 MHz 07.30 GMT at 14.290 MHz. ------------------------------------------------------ Packet-Radio and the World JOTA Team. The World JOTA Team is responsible for the organisation support for the JOTA by the World Scout Bureau in Geneva. The licenced radio amateurs of this team can now be reached via packet-radio for any urgent questions. Preferably, this mode should only be used by National JOTA Organisers (NJO's) or their assistants. Yves Margot, HB9AOF @ HB9IAP, handles all questions about operations of the World Scout Bureau's own radio station HB9S. Richard Middelkoop, PA3BAR @ PI8EAE, handles all information requests about radio-scouting in general and the JOTA in particular. Please note that this is for World organisation support only. Other questions should be directed to your National JOTA Organiser. I wish you all a successful preparation period. Yours in Scouting, Richard Middelkoop, PA3BAR. World JOTA Team.