JOTA 2008
11/17/2008 |
W3TSR
JOTA 2008, W3TSR, Jonas PA
Scouts and Scouters of the Minsi Trails Council joined Scouts from all around the world to take part in Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). This event takes place on the third weekend of October each year. This year was the 51st time that with the assistance of Radio Amateurs, Scouts had the chance to talk to their fellow Scouts from other countries.
With help from the Eastern Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Association, the Pocono Amateur Radio Klub, Shack Hoppers - Amateur Radio Communicators, and The Camp Trexler Radio Club, contact was made with JOTA stations in The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Great Britain, and Germany as well as with Scouting groups in Michigan, Texas, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
This was the second time JOTA was held at Trexler Scout Reservation. W3TSR opened during the 2007 summer camp season on the occasion of the 50th Aniversary JOTA ,under the firm and guiding hand of avid Scouter, and W3TSR Trustee, N3AOI, Darryl Frasier.
More than a dozen amateurs and sixty Scouts and Cub Scouts had a wonderful weekend of radio and face to face communications. The high point for the hams on Saturday night was being chosen to be the judges for the Dutch-Oven cooking competition. Senior Patrol Leaders cooked up plenty of excellent, dinners and deserts. Good food and good radio in the rustic hills of Pennsylvania, it just doesn't get any better than that.
Hope to see you there for next year's JOTA, 73 de WS3S -- N3AOI
Scouts and Scouters of the Minsi Trails Council joined Scouts from all around the world to take part in Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). This event takes place on the third weekend of October each year. This year was the 51st time that with the assistance of Radio Amateurs, Scouts had the chance to talk to their fellow Scouts from other countries.
With help from the Eastern Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Association, the Pocono Amateur Radio Klub, Shack Hoppers - Amateur Radio Communicators, and The Camp Trexler Radio Club, contact was made with JOTA stations in The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Great Britain, and Germany as well as with Scouting groups in Michigan, Texas, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
This was the second time JOTA was held at Trexler Scout Reservation. W3TSR opened during the 2007 summer camp season on the occasion of the 50th Aniversary JOTA ,under the firm and guiding hand of avid Scouter, and W3TSR Trustee, N3AOI, Darryl Frasier.
More than a dozen amateurs and sixty Scouts and Cub Scouts had a wonderful weekend of radio and face to face communications. The high point for the hams on Saturday night was being chosen to be the judges for the Dutch-Oven cooking competition. Senior Patrol Leaders cooked up plenty of excellent, dinners and deserts. Good food and good radio in the rustic hills of Pennsylvania, it just doesn't get any better than that.
Hope to see you there for next year's JOTA, 73 de WS3S -- N3AOI
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