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25th Southampton (Northam) Sea
Scouts
Itchen
Valley Radio Club
Department of Electronics and Computer
Science, University of Southampton
Jamboree on the Air is an International Scout event, held on the third weekend in October each year, which brings together Scouts around the world using amateur radio. Amateur radio is an exciting technical hobby in which qualified enthusiasts are able to build or buy radio transmitters which allow them to communicate directly with other enthusiasts around the world and beyond. Taking part in amateur radio activities can qualify a Scout towards the Electronics, Radio Communicator and World Friendship badges.
Our station operated on the main short wave (HF) bands as well as on the 2m, 70cm and 6m (VHF) bands. Radio Amateurs have to take a technical examination and, for the HF bands, learn Morse Code before they can operate a station. At our station, GB0WFS, the licensed Radio Amateurs included:
- 2E1IFE from the 3rd Chiswick
- G1DQX Niel Fagan
- M0MEH Mark Horton
- G4ZPV Bill Cook
- M0CYJ Denis Nicole
- M0RDH Rachel Horton
More links:
dan@ecs.soton.ac.uk |