Organised by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), JOTA–JOTI is the world’s largest digital and radio Scout event, taking place online and over the air. It stands for ‘Jamboree on the Air’ and ‘Jamboree on the Internet.’
It’s taking place on the 20 to 22 October 2023 this year and it’s completely free.
The radio shack is now fully booked and we are looking forward to having a fun time with many contacts over the weekend.

Click here to visit the JOTA/Joti Trello Board to find out what is happening worldwide.

The Radio Club members were delighted to be part of the centenary celebrations at the District Camp Site “Everton” on Saturday. It was an opportunity to show visitors the activities provides by the club to the Scouts and to explain how these fun activities tie in with the Communicators Badge work at all levels of Scouting. We were also able to offer guests the opportunity to operate an Amateur Radio transceiver and speak with amateur radio operators across the country.

We were pleased to welcome our local Member of Parliament Ronnie Cowan, the Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Infrastructure), to the Radio Club, where he enjoyed a guided tour of our displays and was given an insight into the activities and training provided by the club.

Tonight we hosted our next door neighbours, the 70th Greenock and District, for the first of two “radio fun nights”. The visitors enjoyed playing a number of radio related games including morse code battleships, phonetic alphabet true or false, bomb disposal, radio guided obstacle course navigation and numerous wordsearches and mazes. A fun night was had by all and we look forward to doing it all over again next week with the rest of 70th Scouts.

World Amateur Radio Day is held on April 18 every year and is celebrated by radio amateurs and their national associations which are organized as member-societies of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). It was on this day in 1925 that the IARU was formed in Paris.

The IARU announced previously that Human Security for All (HS4A) will be this year’s World Amateur Radio Day theme.
The day is being celebrated with a 2-week operating event occurring April 11 – 25. Special event stations will be operating from around the world, making two-way radio contacts to call attention to the HS4A campaign.
The United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security describes ‘human security’ as “a more powerful, lasting approach to the most difficult deficits in peace and development,” such as poverty, war, and natural disasters.