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  • Category: Scouting
  • Founded: Feb 25, 1999
  • Language: English
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Get Radio Active!

This Email list was created for Scouts and Scouters to express ideas, further Scouting and Amateur Radio and to provide a place where messages can be exchanged in an effort to keep up to date on Scouting/Amateur Radio and JOTA activities.

Will you be operating K2BSA from the 2010 Centennial Boy Scout Jamboree?

Join the new K2BSA Team YahooGroup at:"K2BSA Team 2010"

For more info on JOTA activities, please visit the ARRL's "JOTA: Information and Ideas"

Want to make a radio sked? "ARRL Youth SKEDS Database"

Interested in Mountain Top Signaling? "Visit Operation On Target BSA"

Join the On Target BSA email list at "YahooGroups!"

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Re: Boy Scouts reinstate Signaling Merit Badge for anniversary year
As of last Thursday National in Texas stated this was still just a proposal on the table....They will let us know when or if they follow through....The person
Posted - Sun Feb 7, 2010 9:23 pm
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Re: Boy Scouts reinstate Signaling Merit Badge for anniversary year
Hello All, There is a rate reuirement(reference requirement 1) for Morse for send and receive. 35 letters per minute with a sound device. Require 2 has a rate
Posted - Sun Feb 7, 2010 2:42 pm
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Re: Boy Scouts reinstate Signaling Merit Badge for anniversary year
... Sorry, misrecalled the semaphore requirements... 20 characters/minute is the actually and is a bit more reasonable.
Posted - Sun Feb 7, 2010 6:03 am
David Ritchie
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Re: Boy Scouts reinstate Signaling Merit Badge for anniversary year
Folks, If it's anything like the old First Class signaling requirement, I think there was no speed requirement. You just had to know Morse. YiS Bill Stewart
Posted - Sat Feb 6, 2010 10:49 pm
Bill Stewart
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Re: Boy Scouts reinstate Signaling Merit Badge for anniversary year
I am just curious - why 35 characters per minute? This translates to 7 WPM, and most practice tapes etc. are geared to the 5 WPM rate formerly used for amateur
Posted - Sat Feb 6, 2010 9:42 pm
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