Announcing Northern California JOTA April 16 - 18, 2010
Posted by af6aq on April 2nd, 2010
Join Boy Scouts of America in celebrating 100 years
In 1910 the United States Congress officially chartered the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). During 2010 BSA will be celebrating its 100th year anniversary as an organization. They San Francisco Bay Area Council of BSA is hosting a centennial anniversary celebration jamboree at the Alameda County Fairgrounds April 16-18, 2010. Part of the celebration includes two “Jamboree on the Air” stations were amateur radio will demonstrated to youth and adults Scouts from across the Northern California Area. The public is invited to come and visit the Scouting Jamboree. Information is available at: http://www.100thanniversaryjamboree.org
The station will be demonstrating HF voice and code operations, VHF/UHF voice repeater operations, satellite communication, radio direction finding, and, CW practice stations.
The station (WZ6BSA) will be on the air April 16 noon to 5 M, April 17 from 9 AM to 5 PM, and April 18 from 9 AM to 12 noon (all times given are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC - 7 hours)):
HF:
40 M 7.190 SSB 7.030 CW
20 M 14.290 SSB 14.060 CW
VHF
147.540 FM Simplex
IRLP
W6CX IRLP: 3057
N6LDJ IRLP: 7712