The “Jamboree On The Air” (JOTA) station for Basildon operated on Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th of October 2014 from the Kingston Ridge camp site, close to Basildon.
The event was run for the 1st Laindon, 9th Basildon and 1st Pitsea & Vange troops and was a busy two-day event that included the following:
- Radio – Giving the cubs and scouts the chance to send amateur radio guest messages on HF and VHF
- Balloons – Two High Altitude Balloons were launched, containing 70cms transmitters and GPS trackers
- Creating QSL cards
- CW – Make a Morse key and send a message
- Codes & Cyphers
- Electronics projects
- Skype call with famous explorer James Ketchell
Event Video
Take a look at our short video for more details, or see our summary of Basildon JOTA Day 1
Event Photos
Here’s a small collection of photos from the Basildon JOTA 2014 event:
Kingston Ridge Camp Site
The campsite is located in Basildon, Essex
- Event callsign: GB1LC
- LOC: JO01FM
- WAB: TQ57
Well done to Mike G1KOT for the huge task in putting the event together for JOTA 2014
Hi Michael,
Seems like you had a great time and a lot of success. What I would do now is email all the groups who attended (plus those who didn’t)and give them next years date and then remind them about 3 times in the year.
Well done to you and all the helpers in Basildon.
Arthur Brighton G7BQY Cestrian Scout Group Chester
Hi just to say that I belong to 1st Grays scout group and I run jota from our scout hut and like to know if you would to see if we can work each other, we run 40m 20m 15m 2m and 10m.