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Annual Jamboree-On-The-AirDave Gemmell, ZS6AAW, the National JOTA Co-ordinator for the South African Scout Association invites all interested South African radio amateurs and Clubs to 'help' with this year's Jamboree-on-the-Air, to be held on 21 and 22 October 2006. Do not wait to be asked! Clubs or individual radio hams may organise JOTA stations themselves and then invite the nearest Scout Groups and/or Guide Companies to attend. In this way, we should be able to have more radio stations on the air. These stations can be set up at the Radio Amateur Clubhouse or preferably, on the Scout grounds, the latter has the advantage of easy access to ropes and pioneering equipment.The event has the great advantage of providing an opportunity for the hams, scouts and guides to tackle a 'different type' of structures compared to the usual ones. Remember there are quite a few "simple" wire antennas with which you can experiment. Interested hams are also asked to set up their stations to contact with
JOTA stations and demonstrate their favourite transmission mode be it
CW, SSB or digital. Many have had the impression that a JOTA event is a lot of work but it
need cost no more effort than arranging a club antenna event or similar
function. In the past the Australians have called JOTA "The Low Cost
Jamboree". Source: The South African Radio League
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