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NATIONAL JOTA-JOTI STORY 2017

60th Jamboree On The Air / 21st Jamboree On The Internet

No doubt your activities at the JOTA-JOTI have been remarkable and are worth remembering. Please share your experiences, ideas and suggestions with us in the boxes below. Feel free to include extra pages if needed. Please write your information preferably in English; alternatively French, German, Dutch or Spanish can be used. Notice: one report form per NSO. One NSO can consist of several National Scout Associations, so please com-bine your information into this one national overview.

National Scout Organization : The Guides and Scouts of Norway

Country : [Speidernes fellesorganisasjon i Norge]

(except for the postal address, this info will be visible in the NJC contact list in the World JOTA-JOTI Report)

National JOTA-JOTI Coordinator

Name: Tom V. Segalstad

Call Sign: LA4LN

E-Mail-Address: la4ln@arrl.net

Postal Address: P.O. Box 15 Kjelsaas

N-0411 OSLO

NORWAY

JOTA-JOTI

participation

Number of JOTA-JOTI stations / locations

Number of participants in our country: Number of amateur

radio

operators

number of

Visitors Scouts / Guides Adult leaders

40 + 55 minimum 3.000 no info 46 no info

We used: Number of

stations / locations using this mode:

Amateur radio phone / CW 40 PSK31, D-star no info SSTV, ATV, DATV no info Echolink no info Teamspeak no info IRC on Scoutlink no info Video chat on JOTI.tv no info Facebook page no info Twitter no info Skype no info Listened to JOTI radio Other: Are non-licensed Scouts allowed to speak over amateur radio? X Yes No Did you use the information on the WOSM JOTA-JOTI web site? X Yes No

Did the stations in your country register on the WOSM sign-up system? X Yes No

The Dovre

Mountain

scouts LA7G

had radio

contact with

Gilwell Park

while watch-

ing them on

live stream-

ing TV on a

big screen!

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Left: The inter-Nordic JOTA-JOTI badge for 2017. Right: IC for Norway, Mats Brunsvik, gave the of-

ficial opening address from the HQ Station LA4JAM to the Norwegian participants in JOTA-JOTI 2017.

Left: The Scout Station LA1KYS with their own call sign (LA1 KirkoeY Scout Group); photos: Chris-tian Pahle. Right: The scouts in North Troendelag practised semaphore communication during JOTA.

Left: Scouts at Dovre Mountain

building morse telegraph kits. Right: The scouts at Dovre Mountain had their night

quarters in tents – and, yes, the white on the ground is – you guessed it – SNOW. But no prob-lem for the scouts in their JOTA-JOTI.

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During our weekend, contacts were made with Scout stations in the following countries (mark boxes

please):

Algeria Dominica Lesotho Romania

Angola Dominican Rep. Liberia Russian Federation

Argentina Ecuador Libya Rwanda

Armenia Egypt Liechtenstein San Marino

Australia El Salvador Lithuania Saudi Arabia

Austria Estonia Luxembourg Senegal

Azerbaijan Ethiopia Macedonia FYR Serbia

Bahamas Fiji Madagascar Seychelles

Bahrain Finland Malaysia Sierra Leone

Bangladesh France Maldives Singapore

Barbados Gabon Malta Slovakia

Belarus Gambia Mauritania Slovenia

Belgium Georgia Mauritius South Africa

Belize Germany Mexico Spain

Bhutan Ghana Moldavia Sri Lanka

Bolivia Greece Monaco St. Lucia

Bosnia & Herzegovina Grenada Mongolia St. Vincent

Botswana Guatemala Morocco Sudan

Brazil Guyana Mozambique Surinam

Brunei Haiti Namibia Swaziland

Brunei Darussalam Honduras Nepal Sweden

Bulgaria Hong Kong Neth. Antilles Switzerland

Burkina Faso Hungary Netherlands Tajikistan

Burundi Iceland New Zealand Tanzania

Cameroon India Nicaragua Thailand

Canada Indonesia Niger Togo

Cape Verde Ireland Nigeria Trinidad & Tobago

Central African Rep. Israel Norway Tunisia

Chad Italy Oman Turkey

Chile Ivory Coast Pakistan Uganda

China Republic Jamaica Palestinian Auth Ukraine

Colombia Japan Panama United Arab Emirates

Comoros Jordan Papua N Guinea United Kingdom

Congo Kenya Paraguay United States

Costa Rica Kiribati Peru Uruguay

Croatia Korea Philippines Venezuela

Cyprus Kuwait Poland World Bureau, 9M4S

Czech Republic Latvia Portugal Yemen

Denmark Lebanon Qatar Zambia

Zimbabwe

Total number of countries contacted: no info

our radio station logbook & plot-map is available at:

http://www.hrdlog.net/...............................

additional photo’s, audio recordings, or videos of our activities are available at the following links:

http://www.youtube.com/...............................

http://www.flickr.com/....................................

http://issuu.com/...........................................

http://www.facebook.com/..............................

Other:

http://www.jotajoti.no...................................................

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Your English summary for the World JOTA-JOTI Report: From Norway a minimum of 3.000 scouts and guides were reported to have participated in the 60th JOTA – 21st JOTI 2017 with 40 stations and 46 radio amateurs active in JOTA, and 55 bases were active in JOTI, with a total of minimum 160 scout groups. Reports have not been received from all participating scout units, so therefore the numbers above represent minimum numbers.

A Nordic Puzzle for this year's JOTA-JOTI was made by Sweden, according to an inter-Nordic agree-ment. The participants reported many other activities for all the different categories of participating scouts and guides. As part of Nordic coordination there are opening ceremonies for each Nordic country run sequentially on the 80 m Scout Frequency. The Norwegian official opening was conducted by the JOTA-2017 Headquarters Station LA4JAM, operated by the NJC (National JOTA-JOTI Coordinator), LA4LN. The opening speech was given by the Norwegian International Commissioner Mats Brunsvik at the opening ceremony transmitted from LA4JAM, and his speech was also available from the official JOTA-JOTI web site www.jotajoti.no. The Norwegian scout headquarters stations with JAM call sign suffixes contacted a number of JOTA stations during the JOTA-JOTI weekend.

Last year we mentioned LA9PF, Cato, who then celebrated his 70th year as a boy scout – he is still a member of the Norwegian Gilwell Scout Leader Training Team, and he was the first Norwegian scout (and radio amateur) participating in JOTA 60 years ago – and he is still an active JOTA participant! LA5CH, Nic, has participated in every JOTA since 1961, and was the NJC for Norway for some 15 years to 1974. LA4LN, Tom, has participated in every JOTA since 1969, was the NJC for Norway from 1975 to 1978, and again since 2015. LA9LT, Hans, has participated in every JOTA since 1972. And LA8LGA has participated in every JOTA since 1977 – to include a few JOTA veterans.

Modern technology enters JOTA – for the JOTA station LA8GMA they selected the tallest spruce tree around for their antenna tree – and they used a remote radio controlled drone to place a thin line over the tree-top, with which they pulled their antenna up to the tree-top – scout ingenuity! For many years we have noticed that the first snow for the winter season precipitates during the JOTA-JOTI weekend in Norway. This year was no exception! A number of the participating scout

groups in this year's event experienced temperatures below the freezing point [of water] in cold, snowing weather. But this wintry weather did not afflict the participating scouts at all in their many activities outdoors, like erecting antennas, radio direction finding orienteering, evening camp fire; and their outdoors overnight camping in their tents – or bivouacs made by the scouts from logs and spruce tree branches found in the forest! This is part of the year-around Norwegian scout training in the outdoors, regardless of whether there is warm sunshine weather or cold snowy weather; the lat-

ter being the circumstances also for this year's JOTA-JOTI. The type of weather, whether hot or cold, makes of course no obstacle for the Norwegian scouts participating in the annual JOTA-JOTI! The scouts on the Dovre Mountain report that their high point was the radio contact from LA7G to Gilwell Park in England, who had live streaming on the Internet – so the Norwegian scouts could see the scouts in Gilwell Park on a big screen while talking to them. In addition to radio communication, each scout built their own electronic morse telegraph kit. Being in the mountains, the scouts had snow on the ground, and they built a snowman, and they slept in tents on the snowy ground. In general, the NJC has the impression that all participating scouts had a good time. In addition to the many contacts with other scouts via radio or internet, a number of scout units had special activi-ties like radio direction finding orienteering, electronic kit-building, signalling, different outdoors ac-tivities (like treasure hunting or different competitions).

JOTA-JOTI makes scouts interested in amateur radio. Radio amateur scouts in Karmoey (W Norway) have invited scouts to a radio course 13 - 14 January 2018, where most aspects of amateur radio will be presented, and the participants will also solder their own electronic kit. A great initiative! Our special thanks go to Bente Pernilla Hoeye and Emma Bodman, secretaries at the Norwegian YWCA-YMCA Scouts’ Association, who have helped us with JOTA-JOTI registration and the web page.

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The World JOTA-JOTI Team has developed a long-term strategy for the event. Improvements or changes you would like to see in the next 3 years:

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The World JOTA-JOTI Team needs to receive your story by

15 DECEMBER 2017 to include it in the World JOTA-JOTI report which will be issued in February 2018.