LFC Venturing News

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Council Station Locations

Station KD5UGO, BSA Troop 217 and Troop 245, and the South Canadian Amateur Radio Society volunteers will staff amateur radio stations at Reaves Park, South East Pavilion, 2501 Jenkins Ave, Norman OK  Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (CDT)

Scouts and Scouters of all ages welcomed. Registration encouraged to assist with planning. A donation of $5 per Scout will cover merit badge resources and a pizza lunch.

Participating Scouts will:

• Use amateur radios to connect with Scouts in other states and countries
• Complete requirements for the Radio Merit Badge
• Complete a key requirement for the BSA International Spirit Award
• Meet up with other Scouts interested in amateur radio and other scouting activities

Schedule for October 17

9:00      Registration and radio station set-up (hoist those antennas!)
10:00    Radio Merit Badge workshop begins
2:00     Merit badge completed, Radio station break-down (haul in those antennas!)
3:00     Close

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.

Station WB5BSA will be at John Nichols Scout Ranch..  Contact John Dronberger  (N5YZA) at N5YZA1@gmail.com for information, time and date(s).  

• Amateur Radio  Talk with scouts around the world.
• Fox-Hunt  Play with radio detection / direction-finding gear.  Find our electronic fox – a 21st century electronic Easter egg hunt.

Station WX5BSA/portable will operate from the Valle area in New Mexico.  Station will be setup between Ring ranch & Whiteman Vega – two sites used by Philmont during the summer months.  Will be active on Friday night October 18 and some during the evening Saturday, October 19.  Bands 80/40/20/15 phone.  Station trustee is Gary Woodrow KA5BSA (gwoodrow@cableone.net).

 

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 /JOTI  information:  http://jotajoti.info/

Software for JOTI chat: http://www.scoutlink.net/joti/

(If you are participating as a JOTA or JOTI station and wish to be listed above, make a comment below and we will edit out post)