18th New Zealand/International Scouts Jamboree

To be held in Christchurch, New Zealand from December 29, 2007 to January 5, 2008.

Over 4,500 Scouts along with 1,000 plus Scout Leaders and support personnel from 14 Countries will participate in this event.

Amateur Radio will be there too with volunteers from local Radio Clubs headed by Paul ZL3TX who will have a fully operational HF/VHF/UHF station running under the Callsign ZM6JAM (OC-134).

The main activity will take place between the hours of 2000Z to 0800Z (9AM to 9PM NZDT) each day apart from New Years Eve when the station will remain active till 1200Z (1AM NZDT). Remember though that NZ is 13 hours ahead of UTC time and one of the first countries in the world to see in the New Year!

ZM6JAM will be active on 80 through 10 meters mainly SSB/Digital Modes along with Echolink via the ZL3CAR repeater Node 101553 and ILRP on 145.625 repeater Node 6900.

All Qsl's via ZL Buro or ZL3TX (See Qrz.com).

For further information or for those wanting to set up skeds please email: zm6jam@yahoo.co.nz


Bill ZL3NB
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