Essex International Jamboree – GB2EIJ

Chelmsford Scout Amateur Radio Fellowship (ScARF)
will be operating at Essex International Jamboree,
Kerby-Le-Soken (near Harwich) Essex.

This event takes place from 31st July to 7th August and we will probably be testing a couple of days earlier.

The RSGB's GB4FUN bus Photo courtesy of the RSGB

We will be operating GB2EIJ on most bands from Top Band (160m) to 2m, and possibly 70cm.

We will also have the RSGB GB4FUN van on site, although it is not clear which call sign we will be using for the "Fun Bus".

We will welcome contacts with other Amateurs, especially any Scouting contacts and particularly those stations able to take "messages" from the Scouts present.

As well as operating two amateur stations on site, we will also be running a "fox hunt" for the Scouts and a "radio kit" construction exercise - the Scouts building a simple medium wave radio for themselves. We expect that there will be between 1000 and 1500 of these constructed!

Although I do not have the exact numbers, we will have a team of around forty licenced Scouts (of all ages and classes of licence) running the radio events - wish us luck.

73 de Geoff G8GNZ

This information was very kindly supplied by The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society -
Click here to visit their website.

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