JOTA is the Boy Scout’s “Jamboree-on-the-Air”. This is a HUGE scouting event, which involved over 700,000 participants last year with 13,500 stations on the air. It can be combined with a camp-over (a “Camporee”), or could be run out of a volunteer’s home.
The objective is to expose Cub and Boy Scouts to Amateur Radio by allowing them to make contacts on-the-air (under the watchful eye of control operators). It just takes a moment to understand that these boys and young men are the life-blood for sustaining our hobby.
My club, Newport County Radio Club, has obtained a permit for Glen Park (our Field Day location), we are sponsoring the event, and we expect scouts from multiple troops to attend. A large percentage of them will be working toward their Radio Merit Badge. To that end, I had to apply to become a Merit Badge Counselor for our area. My credentials arrived yesterday.
