Held this year over the weekend of the 17, 18 & 19 October 2025, the MWRS has again hosted the usual JOTA activities at the Society’s meeting site at Terrey Hills: We managed to improve the centre height of 40m dipole from 2m to 7m improving signals prior to the commencement of the activities. Stonehenge […]
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Sep 2025 Pre-JOTA working bee
To ensure our site and premises are presentable for the upcoming 2025 JOTA/JOTI activities, a WSWB (welcome summer working bee) was organised. With the current prevailing weather, 2 rain check weekends were also lined up. As it turned out the weather was on our side for the initial Saturday 6-Sep day! A comprehensive list of […]
Wed 27-Aug-2025 – JOTA kit packaging
As we approach JOTA again, the society contributed to the packaging of the kits that will be provided to the youth on the JOTA/JOTI day. The 4th Wednesday is typically a freebee social meeting evening, so how best to socialise than working as a group on a assembly line! The kits will then be dispatched […]
JOTA/JOTI 2024
The JOTA/JOTI event was held over the 18-20 October 2024 weekend. The activities at the MWRS’s club venue were held on Saturday 19-October with the usual Battleship game over 2way radio, introduction to HF radio communications, build an emergency portable radio station from the ground up (literally) and introduction to morse. Most stations worked on […]
21-Oct-2023 JOTA!
Well, that’s another JOTA done and dusted. Thanks everyone on the MWRS JOTA team who participated (in callsign order): JOTA was a great team event, although the participating Scout numbers were down a bit, about 60 in total. The Scouts and Guides ventured over from the campsite to the MWRS clubhouse, to get a taste […]
1st Forestville Cubs Visit, 2023-07-25
JOTA comes but once a year, but at Manly-Warringah we make sure that our friends in the Scouting movement don’t have to wait a whole year for their next experience of Amateur Radio! Throughout the year, the Society hosts visits from local Scout groups – a kind of mini JOTA – when the kids come […]
JOTA’s Coming…
Update, September 2025: this year’s JOTA/JOTI is happening from 17-19 October, so we’re updating this post to assist clubs and Amateurs who are looking for ideas for the JOTA weekend. This event is one of the important ways we introduce youngsters to the great hobby of Amateur Radio, so we encourage all Amateurs to get […]
15-Oct-2022 JOTA!
Once again, the club hosted Scouts and Guides taking part in this year’s International Jamboree on the Air. A group of 62 scouts visited from a nearby school where they were camping; numbers were well down from previous years, so we cut back activities from the full weekend to just Saturday. We expect the numbers […]
JOTA 2020 (17 October)
Like just about every other human activity taking place this year, the 63rd Scouts and Guides Jamboree on the Air (JOTA63) and the 24th Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI24) were influenced by this pesky coronavirus. As far as VK2MB was concerned, because the clubhouse has been shut down due to physical distancing limitations, we couldn’t […]
JOTA/JOTI 2018
This year we had around 170 scouts and guides come through and we had some interest in cub and guides night at a later date. By all responses from scouts they were very happy with Jota at MWRS, thanks to all involved and trying to keep to the time dead line of 15 to 18min depending […]
JOTA 2018 is getting near
Preparations are underway at the club this week, in preparation for this weekend’s Jamboree on the Air 2018. We expect hordes of Scouts and Guides to descend on the club rooms to enjoy a range of activities, including making radio contacts with other Scouting groups, playing Battleships on the Air, learning Morse code, and setting up […]
JOTA 2017
Another year of Jota finally wrapped up! This year we had approximately 240 scouts and guides come through our club, even so we handled it with ease. The scouts and guides had a fantastic time and we managed to hand out a heap of pamphlets. We also had some official visitors from guides and scouts, […]