11/05/2007 | KD0JBN Every fall the Pathfinder District of the Greater St Louis Area Council holds a district wide Camporee attended by approximately 300 boys. This year KD0JBN set up a JOTA station at the Camporee, at Baeumont Scout Reservation. Throughout the course of the Camporee we had around 50 Boy Scouts and WEBELOS stop by to see what was going on. We got 13 of the boys on the air and handed out Radio Merit Badge cards and participation certificates to each of them. As we were packing up to head home Sunday morning a Scout leader from a nearby Troop asked if I was going to set up the radio in April for our Spring Camporee. I told him we will definitely have it at next falls Camporee since it always falls on JOTA weekend.

One of the boys noticed the radio we were using and asked if it was made specifically for the JOTA. The radio was a Ten-Tec Scout.

I would also like to give special thanks to W0SJS who loaned me the radio and KC0SDV who loaned me the generator to run the station.

Here are some pictures from our Camporee JOTA station. -- KD0JBN