[SMCARA] World Scout Jamboree is on the air!!!

[Grant Graessle]

Despite two typhoons in the past few weeks, the World Scout Jamboree is up
and running in Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi, Japan. More than 30,000 Scouts and
leaders from 161 countries around the world are engaging in two weeks of
activities and adventure, from July 28 to August 8.

8N23WSJ

Along with all the Scouting activities, including a JOTA-JOTI Plaza
(Jamboree on the Air and Jamboree on the Internet) in the Science Program
Area, the amateur radio station 8N23WSJ is on the air!

The 8 is the designation for a special event call sign and the N stands for
Nippon, which means Japan. Since this is the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, the
last letters in the call sign are 23WSJ.  Have fun with the Eight November
Twenty Three World Scouting Jamboree special event station!

8N23WSJ is expected to be operating on or near the recommended Scouting
frequencies. You can find those at the Scouting JOTA page. Look for the WOSM
(World Organization of the Scout Movement) frequencies in the table. You can
also watch for the call sign on the DX spotting networks.

For those D-STAR fanatics, the JP4YEA, D-Star repeater, will in action at
the Jamboree, JP4YEA. Since Japan rules and regulations do not support
reflectors, make sure you have the RPT2 set up for gateway, G in the 8th
character, and use the following repeater routing command in the URcall
setting.

/JP4YEAA for the 439.49 MHz port
 /JP4YEAB for the 1291.25MHz port.
 (Note:  The / as the 1st character notates repeater routing)

73 de
Grant Graessle
N4PGG