Lincolnwood Scouts Unite the World!

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Joel Byron

(847)674-2713

On Saturday afternoon, October 18th from 2 - 5 PM Lincolnwood’s Cub Scout Pack 74 will talk to scouts all over the world from portable ham radio stations set upat Proesel Park in Lincolnwood.

The Lincolnwood Cub Scouts for their 2nd year will participate in this annual event called JOTA or Jamboree on the Air. Each year, during the 3rdweekend in October, about 500,000 Scouts and Guides all over the world makecontacts with each other by means of amateur (HAM) radio. It is a real Jamboreeduring which Scouting experiences are exchanged and ideas are shared, thuscontributing to the world brotherhood of Scouting. This year is the 51stanniversary. Volunteer amateurradio operators from local ham radio club, Metro ARC will set up the radiostations, antennas and all the hardware necessary for the communications. Radioamateurs who will then let the scouts talk to other scouts worldwide make theinitial contacts. A radio amateuris a person who passed a technical examination by the telecommunicationauthorities and obtained a special permit to operate a radio transmitter.

The Lincolnwood Cub Scouts will be participating for 3hours. Skokie’s Boy Scout Troop 72 will also be joining the Cub Scouts this year for this exciting event. The entire event internationally lasts for 2 days and begins officially Saturday morning, October 18th at 12:01AM and ends on Sunday evening, October 19th at 11:59PM.