We have joined forces with The Kingdom Amateur Radio Club (KARS), which is based at the Fordell Firs National Activity Centre, to form  an Amateur Radio Team at The Blair Atholl Jamborette this year.

The BA Amateur Radio Station will operate under the callsign of GM0 BAJ (Blair Atholl Jamborette), this licence has been specially issued by Ofcom to celebrate the Jamborette this year.

GM0 BAJ will be operating from the morning of Friday 20 July 2012 until the afternoon of Monday 23 July 2012. Activities will include the use of Amateur radio to contact other stations in the UK, Europe and possibly further afield, learning Morse code and phonetics, navigating around the BA Camp site using Morse and at the same time discovering a secret message. There will also be an opportunity to complete appropriate Scout badge work.

The GM0 BAJ station has been set up to provide an activity centre for the satellite camp but all are welcome to come and visit us, providing the programme allows.

The Amateur Radio Station will be sighted adjacent to the southern side of the Castle marquee, the radio antenna’s should also give a good clue to our position.  Please do pop in and see us and find out more about Amateur Radio.

We will be participating in this event tonight.
For more information click HERE.

On Sunday 15 April 2012, club member

Bob, MM1AWV became the first radio operator to activate  Beinn Lagan, a 465m high peak near Strachur in west Scotland.
Some information on the mountain:
Latitude: 56 9 7 N, Longitude: 5 1 42 W
Grid Reference: NS 120996, QTH Locator: IO76LD

Beinn Lagan

© Copyright william craig and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

The weekend was a huge success with nearly 100 Brownies, Guides, Senior Section & Leaders attending.

Fun on the air

Everyone who visited the radio station sent a greetings message to Brownies & Guides from all over the UK.
Other activities that the young people took part in was trying out morse code, walkie talkie wide games, and learning the phonetic alphabet.

Most of those present completed the Communicator activity badge.  The girls also completed a QSL card with a special Thinking Day message to the Brownie or Guide that they spoke to over the air.
One group of Guides enjoyed it so much that they came back to the radio shack just before bedtime and spent another hour listening to operators from around the world and speaking with fellow Guides in the UK.

Over the weekend we made 197 contacts in 35 different countries and 4 continents, including contacts with Brazil, United Arab Emirates, the Azores and Tasmania.
Members of the club voted this TDOTA the most successful one to date.

Eunice, Bob, George and Kai would like to thank Paisley District for their hospitality.