Subject: JOTA 1995 - final information From: jan.pharo@euronetis.no (Jan Pharo) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 18:20:00 +0200 I'd like to forward a Packet Radio Bulletin regarding JOTA 1995, sent out from Richard, PA3BAR, international JOTA Co-ordinator: --------------- PA3BAR SCOUTS WW ** latest info 37th JOTA WSB * R.940927/1711Z @:LA2BBA.LA9H.HALD.B.NOR.EU #:365 PTM542 $: R:940927/1504Z @:LA9H.HALD.B.NOR.EU 175802 [Halden] FBB5.15 $:44013_PI8VNW R:940921/1339Z @:OD5RAK.LBN.MDLE #:18127 [TRIPOLI] FBB5.15c $:44013_PI8VNW R:940921/0411Z @:HA8BV.HUN.EURO #:59598 [KN06NQ] FBB5.15c $:44013_PI8VNW R:940919/0227Z @:HG8GL.HUN.EURO #:64621 [JN96WR] FBB5.15c $:44013_PI8VNW R:940919/0711Z @:HA5OB.HUN.EURO #:44297 [Budapest] FBB5.15c $:44013_PI8VNW R:940919/0017Z @:WX3K.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM #:28948 $:44013_PI8VNW R:940919/0014Z @:WB0TAX.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM #:21737 $:44013_PI8VNW R:940918/0000Z @:KA6EYH.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA #:45440 [Pacifica] $:44013_PI8VNW R:940918/2337z @:N7FSP.#SEA.#WWA.WA.USA.NA #:19233 $:44013_PI8VNW R:940918/2242z @:N0NDO.#SEA.WA.USA.NA Lynnwood, WA. #:32101 R:940918/2235Z @:KB7WE.#WWA.WA.USA.NA #:27763 [BREMERTON] $:44013_PI8VNW R:940918/2044Z @:VE7DIE.#SVI.BC.CAN.NOAM #:55897 [Victoria, BC] $:44013_PI8VNW R:940918/1934Z @:VE7ROB.#VANC.BC.CAN.NA #:4390 FBB5.15c $:44013_PI8VNW R:940914/2058Z @:PI8VNW.#ZH2.NLD.EU #:44013 [Hoek v Holland] FBB5.15c ~From: PA3BAR@PI8VNW.#ZH2.NLD.EU To : SCOUTS@WW To: National JOTA Organizers Radio Amateur Associations Interested Scout Groups JOTA Circular August 1994. 37th Jamboree-On-The-Air, 15 - 16 October 1994. Dear friends, This is a final reminder that the 37th JOTA will be held over the weekend of 15 and 16 October 1994. Details of the JOTA organization are published in the first JOTA circular, issued in May 1994. This circular contains some last-minute information. The JOTA is a world-wide event. Units may operate for 48 hours, from Saturday 00.00 h until Sunday 24.00h local time. Due to the world's time differences, this period is not the same for everyone. To determine the times at which you can most likely contact a certain part of the world, calculate the time difference and ask your amateur radio operator about the radio propagation prediction (a sort of weather forecast for radio waves). Members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) are kindly invited to take part in the JOTA and enjoy this international event together with the Scouts. National JOTA Reports. National JOTA organizers are requested to send a report to the World Scout Bureau soon after the event. What is a good report? A National JOTA Report gives an impression of what the JOTA was like in your country. It contains ideas and comments, suggestions for future programmes and describes the most important and interesting contacts that were made. A summary of it will be published in the World JOTA Report, so others may benefit from it. The World Report editor would very much appreciate it if you could send your additional report text in English on a computer disk. You may use any MS-DOS or Macintosh formatted disk with the text in ASCII format or formatted according to any popular word processor, like Wordperfect, MS-Word, Wordstar or similar. Send your report to the World Scout Bureau before the 31st of December 1994 !! The JOTA map game. Map co-ordinates for the JOTA map game have been distributed to various countries. The format in which Scout stations will transmit the co-ordinates during a contact is: AABB N CCDD E. In this format AA and CC represent degrees whilst BB and DD are minutes. The N stands for Northern Latitude and the E for Eastern Length. We wish you many happy hours with this map game and are looking forward to see your solution. HB9S activities. The World Scout Bureau's radio station HB9S will operate from Geneva, most of the Saturday and Sunday, with short breaks during the night. Transmitters will be on the air simultaneously on the 10/15/20 metre, 160/80/40 metre and 0.7/2 metre bands. The station manager Yves Margot, HB9AOF, will be assisted by Richard Middelkoop, PA3BAR, World Bureau staff members and an international team of scout radio amateurs. HB9S will transmit a JOTA message delivered by the Director of UNICEF, Mr. Jim Grant, according to the following schedule on Saturday 15 October: directed towards: Australia 28.990 MHz 09.00 GMT Japan 21.360 MHz 09.15 GMT (Continued to next message) * 1st 2.00b #1407 * Path: elna.ethz.ch!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!euronet!jan.pharo Distribution: world Newsgroups: rec.scouting Subject: JOTA 1995 - final information From: jan.pharo@euronetis.no (Jan Pharo) Message-ID: <4.11574.451@euronetis.no> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 18:20:00 +0200 Organization: EuroNet Information System, Data +47 5271 6021 Lines: 66 (Continued from previous message) South-East Asia 21.360 MHz 14.00 GMT Africa 28.990 MHz 14.15 GMT Europe 07.090 MHz 14.30 GMT N & S-America 21.360 MHz 18.00 GMT Making a contact with HB9S takes some patience in practice. Usually many stations are calling at the same time. Please follow the instructions given by the operators and do not interfere with on-going contacts. The operators will do the best they can to make contact with scout stations world-wide and speak to scouts in as many languages as possible. QSL card competition. Details of the QSL card competition for JOTA participants were published last May. May we remind you that: entries for this competition need to be received on time in Geneva, i.e. before 31 December 1994. Asia-Pacific Radio-Scouting Seminar. The first Radio-Scouting Seminar for National JOTA Organizers in the Asia-Pacific Region takes place 2 - 4 January 1995. Your application to participate in this seminar must reach the organizers before 31 October 1994. Your National Scout Headquarters has the application forms. For further information contact the Australian National JOTA Organizer Mr. Peter V. Hughes, 58 Preston Street, Como, WA 6152, Australia. Last-minute questions. This circular is the last information you receive before the JOTA weekend. Should National JOTA Organizers have any last-minute questions, ask your radio operator to send a message via the amateur packet-radio network. You can reach the World JOTA Team via this network as follows. Question regarding the operation of HB9S and requests for possible skeds can be directed to Yves Margot, at packet-radio address: HB9AOF @ HB9IAP.SROM.CHE.EU. General questions about the JOTA can be directed to Richard Middelkoop, at packet-radio address: PA3BAR @ PI8VNW.#ZH2.NLD.EU. Please note that this service is intended for National JOTA Organizers only. Others should direct their questions to their National Scout Headquarters. Finally. The JOTA is an excellent opportunity to meet Scouts, Guides and others from many countries. Exchange ideas, learn about other cultures and habits and make new friends. This year's JOTA provides the opportunity for an interesting weekend programme. I wish you all a most enjoyable weekend. Sincerely, Richard Middelkoop, PA3BAR World JOTA Advisor. ------------------------------ From: WIESMANN@iap.unibe.ch Subject: HB4JAM, SWISS JOTA STATION ON AIR Date: 16 Aug 1994 07:18:02 GMT Hi Scouts and Guides, HB4JAM is the special event station of national camp of the Swiss Scout and Guide Mouvement ( cuntrast '94 ). The group operating HB4JAM is the JOTA SWITZERLAND (HB9JAM). The call sign is valid and will be on the air till the end of September 1994 mainly on week ends. Favorite qrgs are 14290 and 17 meters but operation will be on all bands except 6m. QSL info is via buro or direct to the office of the Mouvement, Pfadibewegung Schweiz, Postfach, Speichergasse, 3000 Bern 14, Switzerland. best 73's Andreas (Res), HB9GAV -------------------------------- From: sngo@whelk.nerc-pml.ac.uk (Steve Gower) Subject: IRC and JOTA - posting [1/1] Date: 20 Sep 1994 18:05:32 GMT I am trying to get groups from all over the world who have got internet access (via modems, or friends/leaders with internet connections) to have a version of JOTA on IRC. For those who are unfamiliar with IRC, it is a talker on the internet which about 3000 people use at any one time. There are hundreds of different channels which people can talk on. There is a channel, #scouting, which I set up a few weeks ago, with the aim of people talking about scouting issues. At the moment, there aren't many people using it, it would be much better if we could get a lot more. I have got a bot (a program simulating aperson) called Skip. It can be used for various things, sending messages to people, and file transfer. I am also trying to compile alist of addresses of groups from all over the world, so they can communicate with each other. If you would like your group adding to the list, please mail me the following details: The group name group postal address what type of group it is (Scout, Rover, Cub etc.) your name, email address, and usual nickname on IRC any other details you would like me to include All these addresses are available using Skip, type /msg Skip help filetransfer There is also a general help page available, type /msg Skip help As far as I know, JOTA is on the weekend of 15th/16th October, but I am not sure. Please set me straight if I am wrong. I am hoping that a lot of people will use IRC then, as it is a good opportunity to meet people in the movement from other countries. To use IRC, type irc /join #scouting If it doesn't work, ask someone who may know how you can use IRC on your system. If you have any comments/ideas/problems, please don't hesitate to contact me at sngo@unixb.nerc-pml.ac.uk YIS Steve Gower Path: elna.ethz.ch!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!ub4b!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!usenet From: Ivo=Vankelecom%LOC%AGR@agr.kuleuven.ac.be Newsgroups: rec.scouting Subject: JOTA-chat Date: Wed, 05 Oct 94 09:37:55 Organization: K.U.Leuven Applied Biological and Agricultural Sciences Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <78136427534n12@134.58.40.4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.58.73.1 On Saturday October 15th the scouts of Ternat (Belgium) would like to chat with scouts all over the world. We will be QRV for 24 hours from Saturday morning 0.00 a.m. GMT untill 12.00 p.m. GMT. We would like to make a schedule of everyone willing to chat with us so that interested people can come on a specific moment to talk to scouts from a certain country. This is what we propose: Australia 9.30 a.m. GMT 28,950 MHz Japan 9.45 21.350 S.-E.-Asia 14.30 21.350 Africa 14.45 28.950 Europe 15.00 7.075 N. and S. America 18.30 21.350 Any other appointment on whatever frequency and moment can be made using this newsgroup. QSL-cards will be drawn on the same moments by our own scouts and sent afterwards. You can also reach us to make an appointment via the packet-radio address, which is: ON4ADF@ON1BWP#btn.bel.eu We would like to be talking during the full 24 hours. Hope to chat with you then! Ivo