Mafikeng Sunrise Ceremony

A Sunrise Ceremony in Mafikeng by ZS100MAF on Wednesday, 1 August 2007, will mark 'The Dawn of a new Century for Scouting around the World'.

On 1st August 1907, Scouting's Founder Robert Baden-Powell held what is now known as the World's first Scout camp on Brownsea Island near Portsmouth, England. This date thus marks the beginning of the Scout Movement.

Baden-Powell had strong ties with Mafikeng where he formulated many of his ideas. Thus Evan Davies, ZS6EVD, Eddie Leighton and the Lichtenburg ARC will be running a special event station ZS100MAF at SCENE the scout camping grounds of the town. Please support this station as Evan, Eddie and LARC have done a tremendous amount of work for this event.

The main idea is to have scout greetings following the rising sun, from East to West.

Another aim is to link up with the scouts at GB100BI on Brownsea Island and GB100J at the 21st World Scout Jamboree at Chelmsford just outside London. These two stations will be in operation from 27-07-2007 to 08-08-2007. As Gilwell Park is an activity centre, its permanent station GB2GP will be operational for the same time.

With modern technology Scouts will be able to join in the Brownsea celebrations and those of the 40 000 Scouts at the nearby World Scout Jamboree using other digital modes.

Please note that other countries will also be represented on
1st August, BP100S - Tapei, 8J100S -Tokyo, EI100J - Dublin and SX100VAR - Athens, etc.

When you call these stations try the World Scout Frequencies:

20 m - 14,290 MHz;
17 m - 18,140 MHz;
15 m - 21,360 MHz;
12 m - 24,960 MHz;
10 m - 28,390 MHz;
  6 m - 50,160 MHz.

Source: The South African Radio League