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Amateur Radio Newsline and Filing Your JOTA Station Reports

Jim Wilson
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Both Amateur Radio Newsline, the ARRL, and our JOTA Newsletter have published requests for JOTA Station Reports. The deadline is November 1. You can file your report through the online submission process at JOTA Station Report.

Here’s the report on Amateur Radio Newsline from Bill Stearns, NE4RD. He offers sound insight on collecting the necessary information for your station report.

REPORTING IN FROM SCOUT JAMBOREE

PAUL/ANCHOR: With this year’s Jamboree on the Air in the log books now, stations have other work to do, as we hear from Bill Stearns NE4RD.

BILL’s REPORT: This week in radio scouting we need to turn in our station reports for Jamboree on the Air. This year we had a total of over 12,600 registered stations around the world for JOTA and this included 1,000 in the US topping last year’s number of 500. Now is the time to file your report. This simple two-page online web form includes your station information, a bit about the numbers at your event, a couple comment boxes for feedback on the event and a place to submit pictures and videos. Don’t worry if your numbers aren’t 100%, as I know I had to piece together mine from logs, team members, and some scribbled notes. Just like a cub scout, do your best.

Now that you have submitted your station report, it’s a great time to to meet your volunteers and debrief the team. How did things go? Did you have the right gear? What was the most valuable piece of gear at the operation? Were there any issues with flow through the stations? Did the weather present any issues? And the ever important question, did we spend enough time planning?

As you answer these questions with your team, take time to visit our website and check out our planning guides for Amateur Radio Operators, Scout Leaders and our Countdown planner. We’d like to hear your feedback on what we can do better to help you plan and execute your radio scouting events in the future.

For JOTA station reports and information on radio scouting, please visit our website at www.k2bsa.net.

For Amateur Radio Newsline and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this is Bill Stearns, NE4RD

October 9 2017 JOTA Newsletter

Jim Wilson
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ICYMI you can find the October 9 2017 JOTA Newsletter at this link http://mailchi.mp/a13f62422078/latest-jamboree-on-the-air-news

Don’t miss any in the future. Sign up for email delivery at JOTA Email Newsletter.

Scouting Frequencies During JOTA 2017

Jim Wilson
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You can find a list of suggested Scouting frequencies at http://k2bsa.net/scout-frequencies/ and the same listing at http://www.scouting.org/jota/operators_guides.aspx

Note that these are suggestions. Crowded conditions, including contests, will no doubt require that you move a few kHz plus or minus.

Of particular concern are potential conflicts with emergency response traffic in the Caribbean. The ARRL has issued a note about traffic on 14.265 MHz as well as another note regarding Hurricane Nate traffic on 3.752 MHz, 7.242 MHz, and 14.302 MHz. In general, you should steer clear of any net traffic that you run across.

George Sparling, N2BEF, also brought to our attention a conflict with PSK and the new WSJT-X mode FT8 on 18.100 MHz. Both are recommending the same frequency which could generate interference. Since FT8 is the predominant activity at 18.1 MHz right now, we suggest looking for PSK contacts plus or minus 3 kHz. The frequency allocation for the 17 meter band runs from 18.068 to 18.110 MHz for CW, RTTY/Data modes.

We’ve also reviewed the currently recommended FT8 frequencies on the other HF bands and haven’t found any other conflicts. We’ll note that the K2BSA Jamboree operation used FT8 and found it at least provided examples of amateur radio contacts for Scouts. It’s not a Scout-to-Scout conversation mode like PSK, SSB, and others. But it could serve as a useful demonstration of amateur radio capabilities.

As always, a Scout is friendly and courteous. Follow the Scout Law as you navigate the amateur radio bands during JOTA-JOTI weekend.

September 2017 Jamboree on the Air Newsletter

Jim Wilson
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In case you missed the September issue of the Jamboree on the Air Newsletter, you can find it at this link http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=56ce1526bb2372707f5868e21&id=24527feda1 along with all past issues as well.

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