In Luxembourg, “Go Urban 2017”, the guide and scouts will be operating the special event callsign LX4GO from their campsite until the 28th July 2017.

Keep an eye on QRZ.com

At the same time:

Point your beam towards West Virginia, as special event callsign K2BSA will take you LIVE to the U.S. National Scout Jamboree via amateur radio.

They’ll be operating via SSB, CW, PSK-31, EchoLink and D-Star.

The commemoration for 100 Years of Scouting in Tanzania has also just started: Listen out for 5H3TSA and 5H100JAM.

Another one to add this week:

From Germany, at the Camp Estonteco in the Grosszerlang–Mecklenburg Lake District, an international scouting team will be operating the radio scouting station DP9S.

This special event station will operate from the 26^th July up until the 5^th August. 

The “wireless tent” offer young people many exciting activities, including radio contact with the International Space Station.

There’s a full list of Scouting radio stations over the coming months in the:

NEWS section at jotajoti.info website.

Look for the post titled “Radio-active this season”, or follow the links on the VK6.net website.

Links: 

https://qrz.com/db/LX4GO

https://www.k2bsa.net/jamboree-live/

http://jotajoti.info/radio-active-this-season/

Email for DP9S Skeds: pa5ul@amsat.org

DP9S Web: http://bundeslager.pfadfinden.de/

International Scouting Frequencies

On the third full weekend in August, the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend graces our airwaves.

You may have come across several different pieces of information about the ILLW, but the take-away should be that during August around the world, Lighthouses and Lightships are a focal point for activity.

The International Lighthouse and Lightship weekend, run by the Ayr Amateur Radio Group in Scotland since 1998 is according to some, "one of the most popular international radio events in existance" because there are very few rules and it's not a contest as such.

If you're in the US, you get two bites at the cherry, the US National Lighthouse Week is the week around the US National Lighthouse Day, August 7th, so you get to play twice.

If you'd like to activate a lighthouse and join the currently 303 registered lights, the 38 Australian Lights and the 5 VK6 lights, head on over to the ILLW website.
http://illw.net

If you'd like to see a light in operation, VK6 has activations at North Mole Lighthouse, Casuarina Point WA, Cape Leeuwin, Cape Naturaliste and Cape Inscription.

Elsewhere in Australia, you can see stations in action at Cape Otway, Cape Byron, the light on Lady Elliot Island and many more.

If you're not able to travel, then get on air and make some noise. There is no glory to take from making contact, but the payoff for talking to a ham on a rock in the middle of nowhere can only be measured in joy.

So, get on air and make some noise, for 48 hours from midnight UTC on August 19th.

Amateur Radio is the magazine for the Wireless Institute of Australia. It's the way we communicate among our members, share what we've been up to and talk about discoveries, publish articles about topics of interest to Radio Amateurs, write in to the Editor and participate in our community.

Every month the VK6 Notes section is published in AR Magazine with contributions from Amateurs like yourself. People who wrote a little note, sent it into Steve VK6SJ and told the rest of the world what they've been up to.

Steve would like your contributions this month by the 28th of July, so you have ample time to put fingers to keyboard, chase a chicken around the yard to yank out a feather to make a quill, or to pick up the phone and chat to Steve about what is going on in your club around Amateur Radio.

To save you the embarresment of reading stuff that Steve Made Up, make your contribution today.

An invitation has been sent earlier in the week to every club in VK6, so if you didn't see it, you'd better get in touch and let us know that your club isn't getting emails.

Steve VK6SJ is waiting for your story. 
steve@kennedy-sj.com.au