The 50th JOTA
'AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 HOURS'
The Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) is an annual event in which about 500,000 Scouts and Guides all over the world make contacts with each other by means of amateur radio. This year it will be held on the 19 October 22:00 h local time to 21 October 24:00 h local time.
Rolleston Scout Group, Rolleston Scout Headquarters, Station Road,
Rolleston on Dove, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire ST14 8DW
OCTOBER - Friday 19th @ 22:00 - Sunday 21st @ 24:00
Call sign
GB50SJS
| Equipment in use. |
1 x Kenwood TS-2000, 1 x Icom IC-7000, Wire Dipole, AV-620 HF Vertical 6-20m, Co-Lin 2m & 70cm |
| Our thanks go to... |
Rolleston on Dove Scout Group for the loan of the room.
Paul Goodfellow, Group Scout Leader 8th Burton Saint John Scouts, for keeping us in tea and looking after us.
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| Operators and helpers. |
G0AOD - Dave
M1CBO - Roger
M0JDK - John
2E0KPO - Steve
G0IYC - Denis
G4LIR - Phil
2E0BGV - Robert
G7JHW - Bob
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Vertical 2/70 Co-lin and HF 20m to 6M
A lesson in PSK, John is not convinced!
The Scouts know how to make a mast!
Yes all its holding up is a wire dipole the Scouts made
Main mast support for the 80/40/20m dipole, we know how to take up the space
View back to the building
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