Hi all,

Will be at the http://www.haarlemjamborette.nl from Saturday the 28th of
July till Wednesday the 8th of August. Will be in the internetcaféteam
myself (browsing, webmail, chat (msn/ScoutLink). Campsite will be
running PA100S on Sunrise event and PA6HJ during camp if i'm correct.
Might get behind the set myself using the camp callsing or my own callsign.

Campsite location is just to the West of Amsterdam (JO22IK)

Yis,

Marc 'doc' Elvery
PE2DOC
marc@...

Has anyone heard of weekly scouting nets held by K2BSA and others?
I found the below schedule here: http://www.bsa13.com/jota/

Here is the Sked:
Country Contact Day Time Frequency Net Control

European Net Saturday 09:30 GMT 14.290 Mhz. PA3BAR

Australia  1st,3rd,5th Sunday 02:00 GMT 14.290 Mhz.
	         VK6SAN 2nd Sunday 02:00 GMT 21.190 Mhz.
	         4th Sunday of month 02:00 GMT 28.590 Mhz.

Brazil  Saturday 18:00 GMT 14.140 Mhz. PY2EUB
	 Saturday 16:30 GMT 7.090 Mhz. PY2GMR

Denmark Saturday 13:00 GMT 3.740 Mhz.

France 1st Sunday of month 10:00 GMT 3.743 Mhz. FF1SDF

Germany 1st Wednesday of month 21:00 local 3.678 Mhz. DH6DAO

Italy Saturday & Sunday 14:00 local 7.090 Mhz.

Japan 3rd Saturday of month 23:00 local 21.360 Mhz. JA1YSS

Norway Saturday 15:30 local 3.740 Mhz.

Netherlands Saturday 19:00 local 3.740 Mhz. PI4RIS

Sweden Saturday 15:00 local 3.740 Mhz.

United Kingdom Saturday 09:00 local 3.740 Mhz. G3BHK

United States Sunday 20:30 GMT 14.290 Mhz. K2BSA

West Africa Sunday 07:00 local 7.070 Mhz. 9L1AM

Scout Camp Name: Camp Olmstead, Va (Goshen Scout Reservation)
Operating Days: Monday-Friday 7/23/07 - 8/3/07
Operating Times: SCCP
Call Sign: KA3BSA

This is a COLA announcement for Troop 1083, Rock Creek District,
National Capital Area Council.

We will be at Camp Olmstead in Goshen, Virginia (Rockbridge County) at
the Goshen Scout Reservation July 22rd through August 4th.  Equipment
will be an IC-706 running off of a battery with solar cell battery
charger and a dipole antenna in the trees. Modes will be SSB and some
CW. Hope there is some propagation.

73
Mike
N3GPE

Scout Camp Name: Camp Olmstead, Va (Goshen Scout Reservation)
Operating Days: Monday-Friday 7/30/07 - 8/3/07 (Dates Revised)
Operating Times: SCCP
Call Sign: KA3BSA

This is a COLA announcement for Troop 1083, Rock Creek District,
National Capital Area Council.

We will be at Camp Olmstead in Goshen, Virginia (Rockbridge County) at
the Goshen Scout Reservation July 29th through August 4th. Equipment
will be an IC-706 running off of a battery with solar cell battery
charger and a dipole antenna in the trees. Modes will be SSB and some
CW.  Hope there is some propagation.

73
Mike
N3GPE

Scout Camp Name: Camp OCKANICKON - Pipersville, PA
Operating Days: Monday-Friday 7/30/07 - 8/3/07
Operating Times: SCCP but
Call Sign: KB3NCC

This is a COLA announcement for Troop 30, Freedom Trail District, Del-Mar-Va
Council.

We will be at Camp OCKANICKON, Pipersville, PA (Bucks County) from July 29th
through August 4th. Equipment will be a K2 (10 watts) running off of a
gel-cell battery with 10W solar cell battery charger and a dipole antenna on
a 32' mast. Modes will be SSB, RTTY and maybe some CW.

I will be trying to get some interest in RADIO merit badge and as trial run
for Merit Badge Collage in 2008.

Our troop has a number of adults and a few boys with tickets.  I hope to get
them on the club station, too.

73, Steve WB3LGC

Camp OCKANICKON - Pipersville, PA

Hi everyone,

We took our radio to Woodruff Scout Reservation in Georgia last week
and had a great time.  Lots of contacts, and lots of interest from the
boys.  But we had zero luck talking with any other camps or any other
scouts.

I thought when we got home that I would see if anyone else was on this
week, but again, no luck so far.  So I wonder if hardly any camps
actually get on the air, or whether I have misinterpreted the SCCP.
Could someone please give me the real scoop?

73,
Brad - WB5EGI

I've been listening to the SCCP freqs and tuning around the bands from time to
time. Propagation has been spotty at best down to non-existent much of the time.
On occasion, a DX window opens into Europe or South America, but for me from
here in AZ, if there's a stateside opening, it's usually to the southern midwest
or to CA and seldom at the SCCP times.

Think Cycle 24.

73 and YIS de Fred K2FRD

At 2:32 AM +0000 24/7/07, atlantaguy1232000 wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>We took our radio to Woodruff Scout Reservation in Georgia last week
>and had a great time.  Lots of contacts, and lots of interest from the
>boys.  But we had zero luck talking with any other camps or any other
>scouts.
>
>I thought when we got home that I would see if anyone else was on this
>week, but again, no luck so far.  So I wonder if hardly any camps
>actually get on the air, or whether I have misinterpreted the SCCP.
>Could someone please give me the real scoop?
>
>73,
>Brad - WB5EGI

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the thoughts.  Actually, the past two weeks, it has been
very active on the bands.  When we were at Woodruff, we worked
Africa, Germany, England, not to mention several US states.  My son
worked Texas and Kansas on 10 meters three weeks ago.  So the
propogation is there (at least it has been good over the last several
months).

Anyway, it seems to be a worthwile effort to keep monitoring per
SCCP, especially for the next couple of weeks, since there are so
many boys going to camp.

73 & YiS,
Brad, WB5EGI

--- In ScoutRadio@yahoogroups.com, Fred Stevens K2FRD <k2frd@...>
wrote:
>
> I've been listening to the SCCP freqs and tuning around the bands
from time to time. Propagation has been spotty at best down to non-
existent much of the time. On occasion, a DX window opens into Europe
or South America, but for me from here in AZ, if there's a stateside
opening, it's usually to the southern midwest or to CA and seldom at
the SCCP times.
>
> Think Cycle 24.
>
> 73 and YIS de Fred K2FRD
>
> At 2:32 AM +0000 24/7/07, atlantaguy1232000 wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >We took our radio to Woodruff Scout Reservation in Georgia last
week
> >and had a great time.  Lots of contacts, and lots of interest from
the
> >boys.  But we had zero luck talking with any other camps or any
other
> >scouts.
> >
> >I thought when we got home that I would see if anyone else was on
this
> >week, but again, no luck so far.  So I wonder if hardly any camps
> >actually get on the air, or whether I have misinterpreted the
SCCP.
> >Could someone please give me the real scoop?
> >
> >73,
> >Brad - WB5EGI
>

Brad,

I have been at a BSA camp every Thursday for the past five weeks. There are
two more weeks to go this camp season. Am QRV from 12:20 PM local till about
6:30 local. During the six hours, there are perhaps 30 minutes total with
the mike button pushed down. Most of my time is spent explaining ham radio,
telling how to get into the hobby, talking about Venturing Crew 73,
explaining the public service aspects of ham radio, listening to visitor's
stories, answering questions, etc.

It takes about 20 minutes to bring a Scout from zero understanding of ham
radio to making a contact, if all goes well. The odds are against us making
contact with other BSA camps, although we have on occasion. We are
especially happy to make contact with anybody who has ever had anything to
do with scouting. Sometimes we get lucky, like the time we spoke with an
adult who had some Philmont stories to recount. Earlier this year, we lucked
onto a 16 year old scout from NJ with a license who was trying for WAS. We
gave him Ohio. No big deal, but it sure made the boys happy. I put them all
on the air with the NJ Scout.

Camp antennas are not the best. Slopers and inverted V's are the general
rule, with just 100 watts. We don't have a 70 foot tower with a tribander
(yet!). Lots of what we do during the day is pure NVIS. Around suppertime,
when most scouts drift away, the good sigs from Europe start to come in.
That's when I kick back and take great pleasure working from a site with
very little power line QRM.

Am glad you had a good time with your camp radio experience. There are
plenty of interesting people in ham radio with stories to tell that will
engage the Scout groups.

73 de NX8J

Scouting Sunrise Amateur Radio station on the air

Fellow scouts from all over the world.

We from Scouting Antiano (Netherlands Antilles) hereby announce that
we are pleased to communicate with you during the Scouting Sunrise
event.

The island of Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) is located in the
southwestern Caribbean, at latitude 12' north and longitude 68' west.
The island is just 70 km (44 miles) north of South America.

We will be on the air on Tuesday 31st from 01:00 until 13:00 hrs GMT
Wednesday 1st august.

Our call sign is: PJ2SA

We can be reached on: 80, 40, 20,10m and also on our repeater IRLP
node number 7992

We will be also operating ECHOLINK station (call sign PJ2RM - Node
Number: 114781, PJ2BR-R Node Number: 127954)

Visit:  http://www.100anjascouting.com/index.htm

We look forward in communicating with you!!!!!

73

Rolando Manuel - PJ2RM, PJ2SA
National Jota-Joti Organizer
Curaçao Neth. Antilles

Brad,

We operated from Woodruff during the week of June 24-30 (we were in
Campsite 10, just up from the dining hall). While we made just over 200
contacts on or about the SCCP frequencies, we made no scout camp
contacts. I counted about 15 contacts with scouts/scouters who were
operating from their home QTH, but no scout camp contacts. So our
experience was not so different from yours. Most of our contacts were
up and down the East Coast, and into the Midwest. A few contacts on 20
were into G and OZ land. The majority of contacts were on 40m, with a
good number on 20m as well. We also made 22 contacts on 80m. We were
running an FT-857D on an AGM battery, with a 100+' doublet strung
between two trees at about 40'.

We will try again next year!

73,

John
KI4LTX

(from VA3RI website)
23/07/2007:  CANADIAN SCOUT JAMBOREE - VE2CJCT -
Look for special event station VE2CJCT to be aired between July 23rd and
August 1st to celebrate the Canadian Scout Jamboree. QSL via VE2FGL
(Gordon Furey, 48 Lambton, Ormstown, QC, J0S 1K0). [Tnx RAQ]

I worked VE2CJCT on 14193 this morning on the way to work and chatted with
a scout who was in the shack.  Look for them this week and next.  I
suggested to the control op that they monitor the scout freqs around SCCP
calling times as well.  73

--
Yours in Scouting,
Frank Maynard, NF8M
CC, Troop 407; CR, Pack 54, Novi, Michigan
Ottawa District Cub Training Chair, Clinton Valley Council
Trustee, WB8BSA ...and a good old Bobwhite too! (C-23-04)

Scouting Sunrise Amateur Radio station on the air

Fellow scouts from all over the world.

We from Scouting Antiano (Netherlands Antilles) hereby announce that
we are pleased to communicate with you during the Scouting Sunrise
event.

The island of Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) is located in the
southwestern Caribbean, at latitude 12' north and longitude 68' west.
The island is just 70 km (44 miles) north of South America.

We will be on the air on Tuesday 31st from 01:00 until 13:00 hrs GMT
Wednesday 1st august.

Our call sign is: PJ2SA

We can be reached on: 80, 40, 20,10m and also on our repeater IRLP
node number 7992

We will be also operating ECHOLINK station (call sign PJ2RM - Node
Number: 114781, PJ2BR-R Node Number: 127954)

Visit: http://www.100anjascouting.com/index.htm

We look forward in communicating with you!!!!!

73

Rolando Manuel - PJ2RM, PJ2SA
National Jota-Joti Organizer
Curaçao Neth. Antilles




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Special station VR100S will QRV at the Hong Kong Join-in Jamboree

Date: 29-July-07 to 31-July-07, 1-Aug-07
Main operating times: 0100UTC - 0900UTC
Bands: 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m
Mode: SSB
QTH: Sai Kung Man Yee Reservoir, New Territories, Hong Kong.
GL: OL72EI
Echolink node: VR2HKS-L #312721 (depending on Internet connection)
Callsign: VR100S
Other Callsigns: VR2HKS, VR2JAM, VR10HKS, VR10JAM

Hope to see you on Scouts frequencies.  PSE QSL via VR2HKS, HK Bureau.

73,

de Dawood VR2XNG for VR2HKS
Island Information Technology Club VR2HKS VR2JAM
Hong Kong Scout Hong Kong Island Region

Note: VR10 is valid from 1-Jul=07 to 30-Jun-08 for commemorating the
10th year of reunification with China.

Hi All,

We've finally got Internet connectivity (for how long? KYFC....) and a
little 230V so we're getting more active by the hour. Had a scare seeing
myself pictured in the tent I share with David, mni tnx OM!

We hope to update our website http://gb100j.radio-scouting.org.uk/ soon,
see you on the bands or on Echolink! Look for PA5UL on there, as
Echolink does not allow special callsigns.

73 de Paul PA5UL

David HUTCHINSON schreef
> Some photographs of the GB100J station at the 21st World Scout
> Jamboree at Hylands Park in Essex are available at
>      http://good-times.webshots.com/album/560063849BbJvdZ
>      The station is now active and can arrange skeds.
>      Dr Dave GI4FUM (GB100J team member)
>

The Huntsville Hamfest is August 18th and 19th.

As part of the Hamfest, there will be a FREE kit-building
session for youth on Friday, August 17th from 6:00 PM until around 10:00
PM near the Von Braun Center South Hall (exact room TBD). This kit
building has been organized by Huntsville amateur radio operator Tom
Duncan (KG4CUY), using a kit of his own design.

The kit is an FM wireless microphone. All materials and tools will
be provided. No prior experience is necessary. This is a great
introduction to electronics and kit building. If you bring a small FM
receiver, you can talk to yourself all the way home!

There are a limited number of kits available. Please RSVP to
steve@... and let me know how many to reserve for your
attendees.

Scouts are welcome at the hamfest. Kids under 12 and scouts in uniform
get in free. There are some great youth activities this year, you don't
have to have an amateur radio license to participate.

This year, the Huntsville hamfest is hosting the national convention of
the American Radio Relay League, and immediately follows the Global
Amateur Radio Emergency Communications conference. There will be a lot
to see and do!

The main hamfest site is here:
http://www.hamfest.org/

Special activities for youth:
http://www.arrl-al.org/youth_expo07.htm

Please send questions or your reservations for the kit-building activity
to steve@....

Best regards,

Steve Conklin, AI4QR, Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 204, Madison, Alabama

Hi, our Webcam on:

http://www.pa3eki.nl/pa100shj.htm

Greets from the internetcafe

Marc 'doc' Elvery
PE2DOC

Paul Joosten wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We've finally got Internet connectivity (for how long? KYFC....) and a
> little 230V so we're getting more active by the hour. Had a scare seeing
> myself pictured in the tent I share with David, mni tnx OM!
>
> We hope to update our website http://gb100j.radio-scouting.org.uk/
> <http://gb100j.radio-scouting.org.uk/> soon,
> see you on the bands or on Echolink! Look for PA5UL on there, as
> Echolink does not allow special callsigns.
>
> 73 de Paul PA5UL
>
> David HUTCHINSON schreef
> > Some photographs of the GB100J station at the 21st World Scout
> > Jamboree at Hylands Park in Essex are available at
> > http://good-times.webshots.com/album/560063849BbJvdZ
> <http://good-times.webshots.com/album/560063849BbJvdZ>
> > The station is now active and can arrange skeds.
> > Dr Dave GI4FUM (GB100J team member)
> >
>
>

Steve, I am interested in what you are doing for a kit.

I am running a JOTA/I event in October and I am in the process of
dreaming up a kit. Having never done this before, I was trying to
dream up something very cool/interesting, cheap enough, low enough
part count… Do you mind if I rattle a few questions off?

1) Have you done this before?
2) How much does your kit cost?
3) How much are you charging for the kit or do you have a sponsor?
4) How long do you expect inexperienced youth to take to build it?

I was initially thinking of doing a name-tag kit where kids could
program their name into it and it will blink it in Morse. I figured a
pic-based kit would reduce counts and still be able to do something
fun.

Tnx,
Jon
w1jp



<snip/>
> The kit is an FM wireless microphone. All materials and tools will
> be provided. No prior experience is necessary. This is a great
> introduction to electronics and kit building. If you bring a small
FM
> receiver, you can talk to yourself all the way home!
<snip/>

This kit was designed by Tom (KG4CUY). It's all discrete parts, on a
single-sided board that he laid out. He made the boards we will be using
at the hamfest, and we expect to use them all.

Tom ran a similar kit-building session two years ago at the hamfest, and
said it went well. It was using a different kit, though. I expect that
it will take an hour or two for the kids to build the kit, if we have
about 10 going at a time. We plan to have about 4-6 soldering stations,
and enough hand tools for those. I think the plan is to do two stages of
'board stuffing', followed by soldering those components. That way we
can have an adult supervising the board stuffing and checking
components, and at least one supervising the soldering.

The circuit is a two-transistor audio amp which modulates a single
transistor oscillator running at (roughly) 100 MHz, and a doubler to get
output in the FM broadcast band. It operates at low enough power to
comply with the FCC part 15 rules.

I don't know the exact kit cost, Tom has absorbed that, but it's all
junk box parts. The transistors are all 2N2222, and I'm guessing that
the electret mic element, 9V battery lead, and 78L06 regulator are the
other expensive parts. The circuit uses two hand wound inductors (Tom
prebuilds these), and requires tuning with a dip meter or frequency
counter at the time it's built. The PC board is about 2"x2".

Tom and I feel like having discrete parts does more to open the
mysteries of circuit building, and to make kids aware that there are
"parts inside".

As soon as we get past the hamfest, we're going to start reconfiguring
and/or redesigning the kit. We're members of a very active local ham
club (http://www.harc.net/), and our plan is to put together something
cheap and easy to build, and then stock a bunch of them so anyone
interested in grabbing kits to take to a youth event can to that. Events
like JOTA would be perfect. I'll likely be participating in the JOTA
this fall myself. We have no sponsors yet, but I expect that once we
know the kit cost, we'll go looking for some or bring it up as a club
activity.

The goals so far in the 'redesign' are:

1. To get the board layout redone so that we can have boards
commercially made. I've committed to do this work. Preliminary estimates
have bare board cost at about $2.25 each, and I'm sure I can reduce this
even more.

2. To replace a component that's now hard to find cheaply (MV209 diode).

3. To see if we can make it possible to build the kit without the use of
  test equipment other than a multi-meter and/or portable radio.

We're not committed to staying with the FM transmitter, if we can come
up with something better. We'll see how this one works out at the
hamfest - we're still learning. We already have kids signed up from age
8 to age 14.

If a kit like this has a larger audience, then by all means we're
interested in what people think.

I hope this answers your questions, I'll write a report for this mailing
list after the hamfest.

Steve AI4QR



Jon Pellant wrote:
> Steve, I am interested in what you are doing for a kit.
>
> I am running a JOTA/I event in October and I am in the process of
> dreaming up a kit. Having never done this before, I was trying to
> dream up something very cool/interesting, cheap enough, low enough
> part count… Do you mind if I rattle a few questions off?
>
> 1) Have you done this before?
> 2) How much does your kit cost?
> 3) How much are you charging for the kit or do you have a sponsor?
> 4) How long do you expect inexperienced youth to take to build it?
>
> I was initially thinking of doing a name-tag kit where kids could
> program their name into it and it will blink it in Morse. I figured a
> pic-based kit would reduce counts and still be able to do something
> fun.
>
> Tnx,
> Jon
> w1jp
>
>
>
> <snip/>
>> The kit is an FM wireless microphone. All materials and tools will
>> be provided. No prior experience is necessary. This is a great
>> introduction to electronics and kit building. If you bring a small
> FM
>> receiver, you can talk to yourself all the way home!
> <snip/>
>
>

Have a look at www.kitbuilding.org aswell, they have some nice pre-built
kits

This year we will be doing a "laser"-game
(in dutch:
http://www.jota-joti.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=213&Itemid=59)

Greets,

Marc Elvery
PE2DOC

Steve Conklin wrote:
> This kit was designed by Tom (KG4CUY). It's all discrete parts, on a
> single-sided board that he laid out. He made the boards we will be using
> at the hamfest, and we expect to use them all.
>
> Tom ran a similar kit-building session two years ago at the hamfest, and
> said it went well. It was using a different kit, though. I expect that
> it will take an hour or two for the kids to build the kit, if we have
> about 10 going at a time. We plan to have about 4-6 soldering stations,
> and enough hand tools for those. I think the plan is to do two stages of
> 'board stuffing', followed by soldering those components. That way we
> can have an adult supervising the board stuffing and checking
> components, and at least one supervising the soldering.
>
> The circuit is a two-transistor audio amp which modulates a single
> transistor oscillator running at (roughly) 100 MHz, and a doubler to get
> output in the FM broadcast band. It operates at low enough power to
> comply with the FCC part 15 rules.
>
> I don't know the exact kit cost, Tom has absorbed that, but it's all
> junk box parts. The transistors are all 2N2222, and I'm guessing that
> the electret mic element, 9V battery lead, and 78L06 regulator are the
> other expensive parts. The circuit uses two hand wound inductors (Tom
> prebuilds these), and requires tuning with a dip meter or frequency
> counter at the time it's built. The PC board is about 2"x2".
>
> Tom and I feel like having discrete parts does more to open the
> mysteries of circuit building, and to make kids aware that there are
> "parts inside".
>
> As soon as we get past the hamfest, we're going to start reconfiguring
> and/or redesigning the kit. We're members of a very active local ham
> club (http://www.harc.net/), and our plan is to put together something
> cheap and easy to build, and then stock a bunch of them so anyone
> interested in grabbing kits to take to a youth event can to that. Events
> like JOTA would be perfect. I'll likely be participating in the JOTA
> this fall myself. We have no sponsors yet, but I expect that once we
> know the kit cost, we'll go looking for some or bring it up as a club
> activity.
>
> The goals so far in the 'redesign' are:
>
> 1. To get the board layout redone so that we can have boards
> commercially made. I've committed to do this work. Preliminary estimates
> have bare board cost at about $2.25 each, and I'm sure I can reduce this
> even more.
>
> 2. To replace a component that's now hard to find cheaply (MV209 diode).
>
> 3. To see if we can make it possible to build the kit without the use of
>  test equipment other than a multi-meter and/or portable radio.
>
> We're not committed to staying with the FM transmitter, if we can come
> up with something better. We'll see how this one works out at the
> hamfest - we're still learning. We already have kids signed up from age
> 8 to age 14.
>
> If a kit like this has a larger audience, then by all means we're
> interested in what people think.
>
> I hope this answers your questions, I'll write a report for this mailing
> list after the hamfest.
>
> Steve AI4QR
>
>
>
> Jon Pellant wrote:
>
>> Steve, I am interested in what you are doing for a kit.
>>
>> I am running a JOTA/I event in October and I am in the process of
>> dreaming up a kit. Having never done this before, I was trying to
>> dream up something very cool/interesting, cheap enough, low enough
>> part count… Do you mind if I rattle a few questions off?
>>
>> 1) Have you done this before?
>> 2) How much does your kit cost?
>> 3) How much are you charging for the kit or do you have a sponsor?
>> 4) How long do you expect inexperienced youth to take to build it?
>>
>> I was initially thinking of doing a name-tag kit where kids could
>> program their name into it and it will blink it in Morse. I figured a
>> pic-based kit would reduce counts and still be able to do something
>> fun.
>>
>> Tnx,
>> Jon
>> w1jp
>>
>>
>>
>> <snip/>
>>
>>> The kit is an FM wireless microphone. All materials and tools will
>>> be provided. No prior experience is necessary. This is a great
>>> introduction to electronics and kit building. If you bring a small
>>>
>> FM
>>
>>> receiver, you can talk to yourself all the way home!
>>>
>> <snip/>
>>
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> Check out the UK Radio-Scouting page here at Yahoo!Groups.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-scouting-uk
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> Now that you've got new licensees in your unit, why not have them subscibe to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScoutRadioYouth
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> Visit "Operation On Target BSA" Mountain Top Signaling:
> http://www.ontargetbsa.org/
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> Great list of Scouting/Amateur Radio web sites:
> http://www.k1dwu.net/ham-links/clubs.-.scouting.phtml
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> SCOUTING and AMATEUR RADIO - FUN FOR ALL AGES
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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To: ScoutRadio@yahoogroups.com
From: w1jp@...
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:43:50 +0000
Subject: [ScoutRadio] Re: Electronic kit building at the Huntsville Hamfest

Steve, I am interested in what you are doing for a kit.

I am running a JOTA/I event in October and I am in the process of
dreaming up a kit. Having never done this before, I was trying to
dream up something very cool/interesting, cheap enough, low enough
part count… Do you mind if I rattle a few questions off?

1) Have you done this before?
2) How much does your kit cost?
3) How much are you charging for the kit or do you have a sponsor?
4) How long do you expect inexperienced youth to take to build it?

I was initially thinking of doing a name-tag kit where kids could
program their name into it and it will blink it in Morse. I figured a
pic-based kit would reduce counts and still be able to do something
fun.

Tnx,
Jon
w1jp

The kit-building activity is full, and we're closing sign-ups. The
response was great, and I wish we were able to accommodate more people.

Scouts are still welcome at the hamfest. Kids under 12 and scouts in
uniform get in free. There are some great youth activities this year,
you don't have to have an amateur radio license to participate.

This year, the Huntsville hamfest is hosting the national convention of
the American Radio Relay League, and immediately follows the Global
Amateur Radio Emergency Communications conference. There will be a lot
to see and do!

The main hamfest site is here:
http://www.hamfest.org/

Special activities for youth:
http://www.arrl-al.org/youth_expo07.htm

Thank you,

Steve Conklin, AI4QR, Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 204, Madison, Alabama

My Dutch is a bit rusty ;), what does it do?

Jon
w1jp

--- In ScoutRadio@yahoogroups.com, Marc Elvery <marc@...> wrote:
>
> Have a look at www.kitbuilding.org aswell, they have some nice pre-
built
> kits
>
> This year we will be doing a "laser"-game
> (in dutch:
> http://www.jota-joti.nl/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=213&Itemid=59)
>
> Greets,
>
> Marc Elvery
> PE2DOC
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All;

You can find downloadable copies of the official 2007 JOTA Logos in
both color and monochrome in the files section. Feel free to use them
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It looks like it will make a very cool patch, have color copies on
hand to show folks and generate excitement in it!

Very 73!

Rob Hoitt, N1FSK

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