JOTA 2007
10/31/2007 |
VK7GGA
JOTA 2007
Hartz Division Guides, made up of the D'Entrecasteaux and Waratah-Geeveston Units set up at the Snug Community Hall located just off the Snug Oval.
Approximately 30 Girl Guides attended the weekend which was dedicated to all things electrical, activities undertaken whilst on camp included Human Battleships using UHF CB to pass on the moves from one end of the beach to the other, small electrical circuits such as light circuits using a battery and globes, buzzer circuits and some solar cell circuits, and of course the main reason for the weekend the 50th Jamboree of the Air (JOTA), activities which saw all attendees gain their Science and Technology Badge.
Some excellent local contacts were made and over the weekend everybody at the camp had the chance to talk on the radio at least twice, some of the girls being through as many as five or six times, this prompted the introduction of the VK7GGA inaugural "Chatterbox Award", this was awarded in the categories of Most Improved, Confident Operator, Confidence and the Chatterbox Winner
WICEN's VK7s MBD and FREK provided the necessary equipment and skills to operate the VK7GGA station from the hall utilising a Icom IC207 for local 2m work and a Icom IC706 feeding a long wire pointed approx 30deg East of north through an IC AH4 tuner. Whilst there were some some promising early morning contacts in VK3 unfortunately as the day progressed some local interference ruled out further daytime HF contacts, this was all forgiven with the timely arrival in the evening of the VK7MDB magic touch and within 10 minutes of starting to spin the 706's VFO he had picked up an excellent VK2 station operating from the Blue Mountains on 40m, the girls all got a chance to speak to fellow guides from the Springwood Winmalee Guide unit a QSO which continued for over an hour.
Wendy Thomson, District Guide Leader for the Channel District has asked that all amatuers are thanked for their patience with the repeaters being tied up at various times and assistance to all groups in the region as this was the first time that Channel have done JOTA for a long time and the Guides really enjoyed themselves. She has also invited MBD and FREK back for next year with promises extracted from them for a bigger and better station to accomodate the proposed bigger and better camp. -- VK7FREK
Hartz Division Guides, made up of the D'Entrecasteaux and Waratah-Geeveston Units set up at the Snug Community Hall located just off the Snug Oval.
Approximately 30 Girl Guides attended the weekend which was dedicated to all things electrical, activities undertaken whilst on camp included Human Battleships using UHF CB to pass on the moves from one end of the beach to the other, small electrical circuits such as light circuits using a battery and globes, buzzer circuits and some solar cell circuits, and of course the main reason for the weekend the 50th Jamboree of the Air (JOTA), activities which saw all attendees gain their Science and Technology Badge.
Some excellent local contacts were made and over the weekend everybody at the camp had the chance to talk on the radio at least twice, some of the girls being through as many as five or six times, this prompted the introduction of the VK7GGA inaugural "Chatterbox Award", this was awarded in the categories of Most Improved, Confident Operator, Confidence and the Chatterbox Winner
WICEN's VK7s MBD and FREK provided the necessary equipment and skills to operate the VK7GGA station from the hall utilising a Icom IC207 for local 2m work and a Icom IC706 feeding a long wire pointed approx 30deg East of north through an IC AH4 tuner. Whilst there were some some promising early morning contacts in VK3 unfortunately as the day progressed some local interference ruled out further daytime HF contacts, this was all forgiven with the timely arrival in the evening of the VK7MDB magic touch and within 10 minutes of starting to spin the 706's VFO he had picked up an excellent VK2 station operating from the Blue Mountains on 40m, the girls all got a chance to speak to fellow guides from the Springwood Winmalee Guide unit a QSO which continued for over an hour.
Wendy Thomson, District Guide Leader for the Channel District has asked that all amatuers are thanked for their patience with the repeaters being tied up at various times and assistance to all groups in the region as this was the first time that Channel have done JOTA for a long time and the Guides really enjoyed themselves. She has also invited MBD and FREK back for next year with promises extracted from them for a bigger and better station to accomodate the proposed bigger and better camp. -- VK7FREK
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