[K3PZN-List] JOTA's Coming

[Tom Wimsatt]

Tom Wimsatt
K3RTW

Begin forwarded message:

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> JOTA takes place starting Saturday at 0000 hours local time (12:00 AM) to Sunday, 23.59 hours local time (12:00 PM)
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> Are you prepared.  Have you contacted a scout unit.   Only a few days off until JOTA weekend.
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> Check QST or ARRL online , they had a good article on JOTA.
> http://www.arrl.org/jamboree-on-the-air-jota
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> http://www.scout.org/en/information_events/events/jota
> (Watch out which link you click on in this site, I clicked on one and was lead to a website that asked if I wanted to enter the Green Card Lottery. )
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> The Amateur Radio Club in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands has launched a special DX cluster (a database for radio amateurs) that can be used during JOTA to see exactly at which frequency a Scout station somewhere in the world is transmitting.  If one amateur radio station hears a Scout station on the air, he can enter the date, time, frequency and of course the radio call sign in the database. The information is immediately visible world-wide. He can also enter his own transmitting frequency. Other Scout stations can use the info to tune to the announced frequency and make a contact.  This Scout DX cluster can also be accessed via the logbook of Ham Radio Deluxe.
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> http://scout.org/en/information_events/events/jota/the_55th_jota_2012
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> Check out this site also:
> http://www.pi4raz.nl/jotacluster/cluster.php
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> If you have any information to add to this email just reply to "all" and share.
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> Please pass this on to your friends and club members, we need to get scouts involved in this great service of Ham Radio....
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> 73's Herman Niedzielski, 
> K2AVA ASM MDC for Scouting 
> k2ava at myactv.net 
> 301-791-5841
> "Support Scouting, they are our future."