JOTA
Welcome to the Radio-Scouting pages.
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The next World Scout net is on: 6 March 2010 at 22:00 hrs GMT.
Special Scout station PA100BP will be on the air 6 and 7 March 2010. It counts as 5 points for the 100 year of Scouting Nederland award.
The 52nd World JOTA Report is now available for download in the on-line radio-scouting library.
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.
Weekly or monthly nets exist in which licensed Scouts meet on the air:
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.
