The tree talks !!!

After last years successful operation at the Blair Athol Jamborette, Peter MM1CIR, Malcolm GM3TAL, Marcel PA1JPS and ourselves have got together again to provide the Amateur Radio activities at the 2013 Auchengillan Jamboree using the callsign GB1AJ.

Our Force 12 Antenna

We are providing HF and VHF radio stations as well as a Morse Code wide game and a unique opportunity to listen to the local talking trees !!!

On our first day of operation we made contact with fellow Scouts operating DP9S at the Jamboree Bundeslager Immenhausen near Kassel in the Hesse District in Germany. They have in the region of 4500 Scouts taking part in their jamboree.

Team GB1AJ would like to thank the GMDX Group for the use of their Force 12 antenna.

Once again the Radio Club provided various communications activities for the Girl Guiding Renfrewshire at their South Newton Activity Centre and Campsite in celebration of Thinking Day on the Air.The Guide Leaders also had a programme of activities based on communications. Among these was the making of Morse Code bracelets.

The Radio Club operators were busy on both days helping the Guides and Brownies to send greetings messages, learn Morse Code and achieve their Communicators Badge.One of the new activities this year was a Morse Code Wide Game which proved very popular with the participants. The game required the players to decode various locations throught the campsite where they would find clues, also in Morse Code, to a secret message. This game was based on one, provided by the Kingdom Amateur Radio Club, played at the Blair Athol Jamborette.

Over the weekend the station made 279 contacts in 34 countries, including contacts with 12 other TDOTA stations.
Of particular note were contacts with Cuba, Martinique and the RSGB Centenary Station, GM100RSGB, operating from the Shetland Islands.

Once again the Radio Club is setting off to the Guide Camp at South Newton to take part in Thinking Day On the Air.

This year the event takes place on the 16th and 17th February.
We anticipate a very busy weekend with Guides and Brownies sending greetings messages to other groups across the world, learning Morse Code, the phonetic alphabet and working towards their Communicators Badge.

A full report on our activities will follow shortly after the event.

Here are just a few of the photographs taken in and around the Amateur Radio Station at Blair Atholl. As you can see a great time was had by all.

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