JOTA Participants Urged to File Post-Event Reports

Boy Scouts of America Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, is urging JOTA participants to file post-JOTA reports. JOTA and the companions Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) took place over the 19-21st October 2018 weekend. The reporting system combines JOTA and JOTI reports.

“It’s critical that we demonstrate the activity level for this event to support further work in developing support systems, information, and activities for the 2019 JOTA-JOTI event..”

— Jim Wilson K5ND

Station information will be compiled into the US JOTA-JOTI report and filed with the World Organization of the Scout Movement for their overall 2018 JOTA-JOTI report. More than 9,000 locations signed up on the World JOTA-JOTI website.

File Your JOTA Report - https://k2bsa.net/jota-station-report/

December is YOTA Month

December YOTA Month application is open, make sure to register before December starts!

The YOTA event is a great opportunity to show amateur radio to the world and to invite newcomers. Give a demonstration in a school, local club or scouting group, gather together with your friends, grab a pizza and make some QSOs or enjoy a great pile-up. Feel free to make a QSO with the youngsters, they are happy to get some attention and exchange information. Licensed and unlicensed youth will be making QSOs, be aware this could be their first radio contact ever and give them a chance to experience a possible new hobby.

This year there are new diplomas and rules!

Diplomas can be achieved by working our YOTA suffix special stations which are run by young operators throughout December! We changed a bit on the general rules; 2 points can be achieved per worked stations and 1 extra point for every valid (not dupe) QSO per band per mode!

This is of course not a contest, but getting many youngsters on air from many countries. Be helpful on the bands, maybe these young operators are just making their first ever contacts! The aim is that YOTA stations are in general operated by young people, with the age of maximum 25 years.

The event will take place from 1 December 2018 00:00 UTC till 31 December 2018 23:59 UTC.

YOTA - https://events.ham-yota.com/

YOTA Facebook Group - https://facebook.com/groups/youngstersontheair

YOTA Registration - https://events.ham-yota.com/

Special Amateur Radio Callsign to Commemorate End of World War 1

At approximately 05:00 on Monday 11 November 1918, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage of Marshall Foch's special train located in the forest at Rethondes in France on the western front.

At 11:00 on this Monday, 11 November 1918, the roar of guns ceased, peace and silence finally descended on the western front-ending the First World War. It is estimated that close to 9,5 million soldiers, sailors and airmen of all sides died in the Great War.

In South Africa, the special call ZS100WWI will be active from 1 to 30 November 2018 in remembrance of the South Africans who were involved in the 'War to end all Wars' - we think of the sinking of the SS Mendi, the battle for Delville Wood and the Battle of Square Hill.