In between JOTA events, the club hosts visits from local Scouting groups. This evening, we had a visit from Frenchs Forest Cubs. 13 Cubs in all descended on the clubhouse, and were treated to some radio activities. Des VK2TGJ ran the “build a station” activity (one of our JOTA staples). The challenge is to put […]
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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 […]
2nd Turramurra Cubs Visit, 14-Aug-2023
As all our regular visitors know, playing radios with the Scouts isn’t just a once-a-year thing for us, so we had another visit from one of the local Scout groups, this time 2nd Turramurra Cubs. As usual, we give our young visitors a taste of the hobby, and what they might experience if they come […]
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 […]
Go West, OM!
During a July 2023 family visit to Perth, VK2AXC ran a Morse Code Activity for his grandson’s Cub group.VK2AXC’s son is also a new leader with the Greenwood WA Cub Scout Group hence the invite to help with an evening program. By all accounts the Cubs had great fun, and got in some advance preparation […]
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 […]
23-Aug-2022 Cub Night
In something of a pre-JOTA warmup, the Society hosted a group from Cromer Cub Scouts for a visit on the evening of Tuesday 23 August. It was a cold, wet, night out, but the wood fire took the chill of the clubhouse, and the dozen or so scouts brought plenty of enthusiasm that kept us […]
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, […]
Terrey Hills Cubs Evening – 11-Sep-2017
* I want to say thanks to all for help with the cubs last night. Good turnout from members including Greg VK2XE, Mal VK2TMF, Jeff VK2MZZ, Richard VK2NRA, Rob VK2MZ, Des VK2TGJ, Robert VK2DH & 18 eager Terrey Hills Cub Scouts. We were able to talk with Noel VK2HU on 40m at Hervey Bay QLD […]
Kid’s electronics night!
One of our youngest club members Thomas VK2FTMD organised for a group of young electronic enthusiasts to visit the club for a unofficial master class in soldering. Here is a few snaps of some of the events of the evening. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355594664539406.78574.298022756963264&type=3
Scouts visit to build RDF antennas
This week’s club meeting was devoted to a group of visiting Scouts, who had come to construct radio direction-finding (RDF) antennas for an upcoming fox hunting event. The two metre band portable yagis were constructed from plastic tubing with steel tape measures re-purposed as antenna elements. A bit of wire for tuning stubs, some coaxial […]