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  • 10/18/2009 | W4FDX

    On October 17, 2009, once again W4FDX the Mid Florida DX Association, hosted the Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) for Scouts and Scouters in Brandon, Florida. JOTA is a world wide event, sponsored by the World Scouting Movement, happening each year on the ... Read More

  • Troop 924 scouts communicate via ham radio at the 52nd Jamboree on the Air

    10/18/2009 | NS6T

    Troop 924 participated in the 52nd Jamboree on the Air by operating a
    field station on generator power in a park near the middle of
    Livermore, CA where the troop is based. Five Boy Scouts, one Cub
    Scout, and one sibling had a great time communicating w... Read More

  • 10/18/2009 | WQ1Z/JAMBOREE

    Dateline: Lowell, Massachusetts Saturday, October 17, 2009
    FN42 Middlesex County

    Pack 79 Cub Scouts from St. Robert Bellarmine Parish, Andover, Massachusetts visited and operated station WQ1Z QTH in Lowell, MA from 8:00am to Noon local tim... Read More

  • Special Event K5J(K5AC opr) from Lockheed Martin Club Station with a group of eager scouts.

    10/18/2009 | K5J

    The Lockheed-Martin radio club (W5SJZ) was kind enough to let us use their station again this year.

    I applied for and was granted the special event callsign K5J for this years JOTA. We operated from 9:00am to 5:30pm local time.

    We were visited by app... Read More

  • Scout leader Michael and Paul GI6FEN erect our flagpole-cum-antenna support.

    10/17/2009 | GN2BX

    A brief note on the City of Belfast Radio Amateurs' Society's (CoBRAS) successful Jamboree On The Air event from the 6th Belfast scout hall off the Cavehill Road signing GN2BX. Neither the hams nor the scout leaders involved have done JOTA before.

    I'd... Read More

  • Trying to assemble the 6M Yagi by twilight.

    10/14/2009 | WA6ZTY

    It's fun to be returning to VHF contesting after a 33 year respite. This years effort fielded SSB on 6 meters, FM on 2M, 70cm, and 23cm, I hope to add 2M SSB next time. It was quite a thrill to work 23cm FM stations 100 miles away with 10 watts into a ... Read More

  • Everything needed for five bands goes on top of the car.

    09/30/2009 | K9AKS

    This year I took my traveling QRP operation to southeastern South Dakota. I arrived Thursday evening hoping to set up and operate all day Friday and Saturday morning, but it rained all day Friday so I had to set up Saturday morning. Took a nice tour of... Read More

  • Seven rover stations line up for a photo opportunity in Joshua Tree National Park, with the bizarre shapes of the 
trees competing with toolbox stations for visual drama.  This photo was taken in the rare grid of DM23 just before the end of the contest.  N6VI's 4Runner is in the foreground at right.

    09/29/2009 | N6NB/R

    The September VHF contest was a lot of fun for everyone in the Southern California Contest Club who participated. We had eleven different 10-band stations in the field, including nine rovers and two DXpeditions to distant grid squares that we didn't h... Read More

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