So who will be participating?
The Malvern Scout Group in Christchurch will be all go this year and I am also pleased to announce we have a special event callsign ZM3JOTA and will be on 80/40/20/15/10/2 and 70cm also keep an eye out on EchoLink ZL3CAR/R node 101553.
We will have 60+ cubs scouts and Ventures active over the weekend
Look forward in working other Scout and Guide groups around the world!!
73's Mike ZL3MF
Malvern Scout Group
Innes Rd
Christchurch
New Zealand
ZM3JOTA
Have had a number of VK's contact me direct...looks like there is going to be heaps of JOTA activity in VK...
Now who will be active in ZL?
Cheers
Mike ZL3MF
Fellow hams don't forget to support JOTA weekend coming up, this is a great way of promoting Amateur radio to the youth...
My scouts know both their phonetic Alphabet AND Q code backwards and they sound very professional Listen out for us on the 18th and 19th
73's
Mike ZM3JOTA
Update antenna's up and we have now have a FL-2500 to use for the weekend . Station will be a IC-706MK2G into a FL-2500 and 2kw tuner feed to a G5RV antenna. 2M/70CM will be a FT-7800 dual band mobile antenna.
Have 80 youth plus attending from our group, senior scouts even know the Q code and they will be using it!!! All of them know the phonetic alphabet as well
Roll on weekend
73's Mike ZL3MF/ZM3JOTA
Malvern Scout Group
Christchurch New Zealand
Emdrc club Melbourne has the club rooms open for a small scout group Saturday afternoon from 1-3pm local time. We were too late getting a scout call sign. But will use clubs call sign. Vk3er. We will be on 40m looking for contacts. Thanks.
Andrew Scott - VK3BQ
Mount Waverley, Vic. QF22NC39XL http://www.vk3bq.com/ <-ham blog
VK3BQ wrote:Emdrc club Melbourne has the club rooms open for a small scout group Saturday afternoon from 1-3pm local time. We were too late getting a scout call sign. But will use clubs call sign. Vk3er. We will be on 40m looking for contacts. Thanks.
What frequency we will listen out for you, are you able to go on 20m as well?