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US JOTA Registrations May Top Previous Levels this Year

10/10/2016

With Scouting’s Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) just days away, JOTA Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, said this week that he's optimistic a record number of US JOTA stations will register this year. He said it was a bit more difficult to compare figures from earlier years, because the JOTA and JOTI (Jamboree on the Internet) registrants are in the same database. The official JOTA-JOTI sign-up system remains open. JOTA will be on the air October 14-16.

“We currently have 505 US stations signed up out of a world-wide total of 3,184,” Wilson said this week. “We expect to have a few thousand more stations around the world signed up by JOTA-JOTI weekend. Make sure you register your station.”

Wilson is not optimistic about favorable HF propagation this weekend, however, but he's hoping for the best. Most JOTA activity will center around selected HF frequencies.

The “PI4RAZ/J JOTA / Scouting Cluster Node” is one place to find out who’s on the air and where. “Hearing them might be another matter, but it's a good starting point,” Wilson said. A “Scouts QSO” page lets JOTA stations make schedules with one another. No log-in is necessary. “Just use your call sign to post information,” Wilson said.

To help newcomers to ham radio, a Radio Scouting Quick Reference Card was developed by Tom Schuessler, N5HYP, to help Scouts with phonetics and call signs. On the back side of the card are common Q signals and a list of questions to help get Scout-to-Scout conversations going.

Wilson again urged all stations that register to file post-JOTA reports. Every station that files a report will be entered into a drawing for an Icom radio.

More than 1 million Scouts in 150+ countries — at nearly 18,000 stations — are expected to take part in JOTA 2016, engaging with other Scouts to talk about Amateur Radio and their Scouting experiences.

 

 



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