These events are the easiest and most inexpensive way to participate in the worldwide fellowship of Scouting. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers participate with their fellow programs worldwide contacting sites that may be in the next state, the next country or on the other side of the world.
Explore Advanced Technology
Discover how radio waves can travel worldwide for free without a subscription plan or landline connection to talk with Scouts and Guides all around the world using advanced radio gear.
Council Station Locations
Station K5C will be operated at the Wesley United Methodist Church, 302 E Independence, Shawnee, OK Contact Gary Way (AE5OF) at kf5cky@yahoo.com for information, time and date(s).
- Amateur Radio Talk with scouts around the world.
- Skype See who you are talking too during your contact. A limited number of stations will have Skype connections for video and possibly other TV technologies for transmission.
- Other Activities
- Times starts at 0800 hrs local and go till 1200 hrs or longer on Saturday, October 20.
Station WB5BSA will be at Liberty Lake in southern Logan County in between Guthrie and Edmond. Contact John Dronberger (N5YZA) at N5YZA1@gmail.com for information, time and date(s).
- Amateur Radio Talk with scouts around the world.
- Skype See who you are talking too during your contact. A limited number of stations will have Skype connections for video and possibly other TV technologies for transmission.
- Fox-Hunt Play with radio detection / direction-finding gear. Find our electronic fox – a 21st century electronic Easter egg hunt.
- Radiosurgery Discover how radiosurgery uses radio waves to remove tumors in medicine. Practice using an advanced radiosurgical unit to practice removing the warts off a pickle.
- Satellite communications BSA station K2BSA down in Dallas will attempt a schedule communication this year with astronauts on board the International Space Station. We were successful last year in talking with an astronaut “on the fly” using a handheld radio and an antenna made of barbed wire. Can we do it again?
- Patches – A limited supply of JOTA patches are available at this site for $4.00 each.
For more information go to:
JOTA BSA website: http://www.scouting.org/jota
Fact Sheets for Scout Leaders and Amateur Radio Operators: http://www.scouting.org/jota/facts.aspx
WOSM JOTA information: http://scout.org/en/information_events/events/jota
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