By Dave Gemmell and
the Broomstick Warriors.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL JOTA/JOTI IN FORMATION IS TO BE FOUND ON THE WEB. PLEASE CONSULT LAST MONTHS ISSUE OF RADIO-ZS FOR THE CORRECT WEB ADDRESS.

Well, it’s the October issue and it’s being written in the middle of September!
Hopefully, when you read this column most of the Guides and Scouts will either be busy on the JOTA week-end or busy with their final preparations. I hope all those stations taking part have registered as educational station so that the girls and boys can talk on the air or send messages using morse code.
Now here’s a thought!!! I suppose all JOTA stations which have packet radio, RTTY, SSTV, and so on., must also register as educational stations before the non-licenced will be allowed to use these modes? Your comments please, ladies and gentlemen!!!

Before I left on holiday I did submit the form to advise the SARL that JOTA would be taking place on 20th – 21st October 2001 and wanted to assume that one of these forms would be sufficient but as it required a callsign . Now I’m not so sure.
So please, chaps, fill in and send both forms.

I haven’t been around in SA to hear what’s going on radio-wise on the Scouting scene neither is there much news here in the UK mainly as I’ve yet to meet some Hams and scouting types.
Perhaps I will come across something or other in the next week or two.
At the bottom of this Column again with the major yearly plea for reports of the goings-on and happenings at your JOTA and JOTI stations. Hams, don’t wait for the scouts and girls and girls and boys don’t wait for the Hams to send in the report.
If individual hams, guides or scouts would like to send in separate reports please do so! These all help for the National JOTA Report which must be sent to World Scout HQ in Geneva. Please include attendance figures even “guestimates” will do. I would like to have these before 30th November 2001 as the completed report must get to HQ by 31st December 2001.