Greetings to the list,
The 53rd Jamboree on the Air is coming up on October 16th and 17th and many groups who are hosting events for Scouts are going to attempt to do satellite contact demos. These contacts always stir up lots of excitement for the Scouts present. As a person who is leading up a JOTA event at the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas as K2BSA/5, I would like to request as much leeway as possible be given on those dates for Scout groups, especially on the FM birds. Many of these portable stations will be using HTs and Arrow/Elk antennas and just will lose out on things if they get buried by high power, fixed stations.
The whole purpose of JOTA is to expose the Scouting community to the excitement of Ham radio and we want to present as positive an image as we can on that weekend.
I know this is just one guys opinion and I also know that this mailing list only goes to a small percentage of Hams involved with Satellite communications, but hopefully it will help to keep things sane on that weekend.
I thank you all for your time and consideration in reading this and hope you get involved with a JOTA location near you. These kids are our future in the hobby.
Tom Schuessler de N5HYP 2713 Lake Gardens Drive Irving, Texas 75060 972-986-7456 214-403-1464 (Cell) [email protected]