Amateur radio has been a partner with the Boy Scouts of America for many years. Scouts have earned badges and worked beside hams to learn about the hobby. Many of today’s hams got their start as a Boy Scout. Thankfully this practice is still going on today.
This week, however, the Boy Scouts over in England are celebrating their 100 years as scouts, 1907 to 2007. Amateur station GB100J will be operating around the clock during the jamboree. We will be able to work them as DX and help them make additional contacts. They should be on most amateur bands. The dates are from July 27 to August 7, 2007.
They plan to contact the International Space Station, including an Echolink relay of the contact. Check www.QRZ.com on their home page for more information.
About Me
- Jack Stahl
- One of the wonderful aspects of using Morse code as a communications mode is that it is very indifferent as to the operator’s age. A good fist (one who sends well) can be ten years old or one hundred. I say this is wonderful because I am happily enjoying my sixty ninth year. I am new to the hobby of amateur radio, however, since I passed my technician test in September of 2006 and was awarded the license and call sign of KD8EJY by the FCC. I then passed my General exam in November and was granted my vanity call sign request of K8ASA by the FCC Although I am new to the amateur radio hobby, I am not new to Morse code. The ASA in my call sign refers to the Army Security Agency who sent me to a special school in 1956 to become efficient in Morse code. I was sent to Ethiopia for two years to give the army the benefit of my new skill. While back in those days my knowledge of Morse code was beneficial to our national security, 51 years later it now brings me pure pleasure. There has been a hiatus of fifty years between my army discharge and my becoming a ham and I do truly regret the fact that I missed out on all those years of enjoyment with the amateur radio hobby.
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