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WEBELOS Woods 2008
QUIVIRA COUNCIL
October 18, 2008


White Buffalo District, Quivira Council held their Fall WEBELOS Woods at Camp Kanza during the Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA) weekend and invited the Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society (BEARS) to participate. Camp Kanza is about 1 hours west of Wichita, KS. The JOTA event was one of the positions in the WEBELOS Woods rotation. Every scout had the opportunity to get an overview of Amateur Radio and talk on HF or 2 meter radios. The event made 67 contacts and had 310 Cub Scouts talk on the radio.

WEBELOS Woods was setup up for seven 50 minutes sessions with about 40 Cubs each. The event operated under the BEARS club call, kc0ahn. The area was setup with 5 stations; overview discussion, 40 Meter HF radio on a DX-LB Plus antenna, 20 Meter HF radio on a 20M half-square antenna, 2 Meter VHF radio on a Yagi pointed to Wichtia, and Newton, KS and a 70cm radio pointing to Sterling, KS, which has a connection to the K-Link repeater net. Each session started out in front of the Professor (Harvey Jones AC0EG and Sherry Weir KB0SQQ) for an overview of Amateur Radio. During the overview, groups of 5 were pulled off and sent to the radio stations. Every Cub who wished to talk on the radio had the opportunity to make a contact on at least one radio.

The station setup began at 1:00 PM on Friday, October 17, 2007. All antennas were up and tested by 7:00 PM. WEBELOS Woods started at 9:00 AM October 18, 2007 and ended at 6:00 PM. All the antennas came down and were packed in vehicles by 7:00 PM. The rest of the equipment was packed up and we left by 8:35 PM.

The following stations were operated:

HF-1: ICOM 706 feeding a 20m half square at 28 ft.

HF-2: Ten-Tec Omni-D feeding a DX-LB Plus at 30 ft.

VHF-1: Yaesu FT-815 feeding a 70cm Yagi at 10 ft.

VHF-2: Yaesu FT-100 feeding a 4 element 2m vertical beam at 39 ft.

Amateur Radio Participants
ac0eg Harvey event facilitator and professor
kb0sqq Sherry event professor and photographer
kc0ifq Dennis HF-1 station captain
lc0ywm Dexter HF-1 station recorder and VHF mobile
wa0gnc George HF-2 station captain
helper Greg HF-2 station recorder
wa0rox Cliff VHF-2 station captain
kc0nxf Dan VHF-2 station co-captain and recorder
n0ld Randy VHF-1 station captain
kc0yji Ben VHF-1 station co-captain and recorder

Scout Jon from Troop 736 station recorder
Scout Dan from Troop 736 station recorder
Scout Matt from Troop 736 station recorder

We also had a display for SKYWARN, thanks to the Wichita National Weather Service Volunteer Coordinator Sherry (kb0sqq). A number of parents spent time looking at the SKYWARN display and inquired for more information.

Thanks to the local repeaters that supported the VHF event:
Newton Amateur Radio Club, Newton KS - 146.61
Wichita Amateur Radio Club, Wichita KS - 146.82
Air Capital Tec-Ni-Chat Amateur Radio Club, Wichita KS 146.94
K-Link at Sterling KS on 444.450 -- AC0EG