The Sporadic Ham Radio Club had 33 cub scouts and their parents / leaders attend JOTA this year. The scouts really seemed to enjoy themselves. Each scout made a HF SSB contact, sent and received a short message with morse code, filled out QSL cards, heard a short presentation about ham radio and saw a demo of SSTV, APRS and PSK-31. We didn't find any scout SSTV activity this year. The International Space Station came into range during our last session. We called several times but weren't able to break the pile-up on that first pass. The scouts were able to hear space station commander Frank Culbertson make contacts with other scout stations. This was very interesting to them. Eric (a first year Webelos) was able to make contact during the following pass. Thanks to Stan Vandiver (W4SV) we have a high quality recording of their contact.
ISS commander Frank Culbertson - (click on the picture to hear the recording)
Our statistics for JOTA 2001:
Cub Scouts Brad and Eric checking the log at the PSK-31 station.
Thanks to everyone who participated including Mike-KA2KQP, George-KB2ZHX, Pete-KF2U and Dan-W2HQ and our first year Webelos assistants Eric and George. Hope to see you next year!
Here are some JOTA Web Resources.
QSL cards have been presented to the scouts. THANKS!
Our JOTA 2001 QSL card
For a sked or more information jota@k2fa.org
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