JOTA
Welcome to the Radio-Scouting pages.
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The 54th World JOTA Report is now available on-line at the radio-scouting library.
National JOTA Organizers who are looking for a high-resolution print version of the World JOTA Report, it is available for you at the NJO pages (login required).
- CQ Jamboree, JOTA's history book available on line. Read more.
- Receive automatic update notices of the radio-scouting news: Join the network.
The 54th Jamboree On The Air will take place on 15 and 16 October 2011.
This year's theme is: Peace, Environment and Natural Disasters.
An exciting activity that focuses on the strength of Scouting: to act and support in unforeseen circumstances. Scouts are prepared.
The network for National JOTA Organizers(NJO's) gives access to web pages with additional background information for the JOTA. These are meant for NJO's only and require a login.
Several amateur radio bands have designated frequencies where Scout stations can meet. Of course, the whole authorized band can be used for Scout contacts, howver, to easily find Scout stations, listen in on the following Scout frequencies:
Echolink is a system that can connect Amateur Radio stations to each other via internet. Does this sound weird to you? Well, that depends on how you look at it.
Welcome to our on-line library. Here you can find all sorts of programme resource material. It can be used to prepare your JOTA weekend or for other occasions, e.g. large summer camps.
Amateur radio stations have been set up at each World Scout Jamboree since 1957. They provided a live-link from the Jamboree to the home countries of the participants, directly over short-wave radio. For many years, this was the only direct contact back home a Scout could have.
The World Jamboree radio stations provided a glimpse of the Jamboree live to other Scouts world-wide as part of the Join-in-Jamboree programme. Ths station team also ran daily programmes for the Scouts on the Jamboree site. To many of them, their first encounter with short-wave radio.
A radio-scouting seminar is held in Europe every 3 or 4 years. Participants from all over Europe discuss JOTA organisation, devise further policies and exchange radio-scouting ideas and views. Participants are National JOTA Organisers, International Commisioners and National team members.
