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podcasting sites. Several of you specifically
asked for Ray Novak in 9JA to come on the show
and talk about his personal experiences with
scouting and ham radio. Unfortunately, Ray is
not able to be with us tonight. He's a busy guy
and hopefully we can find a time that works out
for him better soon. But we're going to stick
with the theme tonight as we have a pair of great
guests with us. to talk about the connection
between Ham Radio and the Boy Scouts and we'll
even tie in the Girl Scouts as well. Will Jordan,
AA4WJ, is the ICOM America sales representative
for their amateur radio division. ICOM has been
the supplier of the radios to the National Boy
Scout Jamboree, the K2BSA station, and even operate
a loaner program for local scouting councils
around the country. Jim Wilson, K5ND, is retired
from the Boy Scouts of America headquarters,
where he spent 21 years in publishing and communications.
He is now a freelance writer and continues to
volunteer as chairman of the National Radio Scouting
Committee, the National Jamboree on the Air organizer,
and a member of the World JOTA and JOTI team.
He is president of the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association,
and you can check out their website at k2bsa
.net. Over 172 ,000 scouts over the years have
earned the Radio Merit Badge, including myself,
and therefore been formally exposed to amateur
radio. Good evening, Will, and good evening,
Jim. Good evening. Yep, good evening. Well, Jim,
why don't you start off telling us about your
role with scouting and ham radio? You bet. And
first, I want to say, Neil, thanks very much
for having us on this evening on your show and
allowing us time to talk about One of our page
or two of our passions actually amateur radio
and scouting and and my role is you as you mentioned
those the various titles that i have and i'll
use it to is a little bit of an introduction
to how scouting words. and how amateur radio
within scouting works as well. I serve on the
World Jambri on the Air, Jambri on the Internet
team. It's five people selected from around the
world. We operate as volunteers out of the Kuala
Lumpur Office of the World Scout Organization.
And the World Scout Organization authorizes national
scouting programs. So every scouting program
in each nation in the world, they're the ones
that authorize that program. And they operate
on the air, Jambri on the internet. It's a worldwide
event. It's actually the largest scouting event
in the world with over a million scouts on the
air the third weekend in October. So it's a huge
deal and it all starts there at the world level.
In fact, it started there in 1957 and the founder
of Jambri on the Air, G3, oh golly, now it's
escaping my memory, but he was just inducted
into the CQ magazine hall of fame. So I work
at the world Jambri on the Air, Jambri on the
internet team. I'm also the national uh... u
.s. national jamboree on the air organizer and
so my role there is to uh... facilitate uh...
jamboree on the air here in the in the u .s.
working with the stations uh... producing uh...
information uh... scouting dot org slash j o
t a is uh... location where uh... the uh... boy
scouts of america publishes information on how
to get involved in jamboree on the air And then
I'm also president of the K2BSA Amateur Radio
Association. And the K2BSA Association, it was
formed to extend the reach of amateur radio within
the scouting movement. And it does so. As, at
this point, a growing association, we have about
160 members now. In early 2015, we had eight.
It was founded in, I think, established in 79
and really was kept local here in the Dallas
-Fort Worth area. And in 2015, we elected to
open it up. Membership, by the way, is... $12
for a lifetime membership, and it's there at
k2bsa .net. And it serves as a really easy way
to get information online and to support amateur
radio and scouting, really across the country.
So let's see, did I miss anything? Well, we also
have part of that Jamboree on the Year organizer
thing is we have a the BSA National Radio Scouting
Committee. It operates at the national level.
It serves the international department at Boy
Scouts of America because it is an international
event and it's a group of active scouts who are
also amateur radio operators and they work within
the structure of Boy Scouts of America to promote
amateur radio and scouting. You're a busy guy.
Well, it seems that way. Yeah. That's what happens
when you retire, right? You have to go back to
work to get any rest because you're doing everything,
right? Well, exactly. I call that sort of thing
retirement enrichment. It's how you enrich your
life after retirement by contributing to others.
Oh, that's great. Very good. Very good. Let's
focus in a little more on the Jamboree on the
Air and Jamboree on the Internet. How does that
program tie in with the young men in scouting?
Let's dig down a little deeper and get down to
the kids that are in the scouting programs. How
does that work for them and how does that expose
them to Henry? Well, the big thing, I believe,
is that it's Fundamentally, its purpose is to
engage scouts in Scout to Scout conversations
across town and around the world in order to
open up their horizon of what's the rest of the
world look like? It's sometimes hard for us ham
radio operators to remember that, but that's
the whole purpose is to cross -border sharing
of experience in Scout to Scout conversations.
And it's really, really productive in doing that.
In last year's event, there were 151 countries
active and almost 18 ,000 stations. It's also,
it's the one opportunity many, many, many Scouts
have of going to a jamboree. Now, a national
jamboree, there's about in the US, there's about
30 ,000 scouts to get to go. It's held in West
Virginia. It's not a low -cost activity. It's
two weeks. It's a big deal. It only happens every
four years. And so it's just a select group that
gets to go to that. And if scouts happen to live
in other countries, have very rare chance of
attending anything like that. So this is their
opportunity to do that. Now, getting back to
your question as I take it wherever I go, but
it promotes ham radio. It's the technology that
we're using. And we look at Jambri on the Air
as really an introduction. Typically it's happening,
it's that third weekend in October. It's happening
around a camp out. It's often one more activity
that's happening that weekend. So it's not the
be all end all of that camperee. And the scouts
come by, and it can be Boy Scouts, it can be
Cub Scouts. They come by, they look at it, they
learn a little bit about amateur radio. Some
of them walk away, OK, fine. Others, their hair
catches on fire, and they gain a real interest
in it. But I also say, at that level, it's really
an introduction. It's about planting seeds. And
so next year, they come back. Oh, yeah, I remember
that. That's pretty cool. Let me dig into it
a little bit further. they're older, and they're
looking around for a hobby, and they go, huh,
ham radio. I remember that. I looked into that
when I was in scouting. In fact, just like you
did, Neil, with your radio maripage. And so Jambry
on the Air is really planting seeds, getting
scouts engaged. A few of them catch on fire and
really get engaged. And I'll talk more about
the other activities that are available within
scouting. it plants those seeds. And my little
anecdote, Ray Novak actually gave me this one.
He said it's, these people will probably be sitting
on your homeowners association board 20 years
from now. Yeah. And when you're asking for an
antenna and they'll go. I remember ham radio
back in Jambri on the air. Well, heck yes. Of
course, put that in 10 up. You know, that's,
that's one of the things that, uh, that I kind
of think about too. I teach high school chemistry
and, and so we have a ham radio day every year
in the chemistry class. And so, and I keep the
ham radio saves lives bumper sticker up in the
classroom all the time. And, you know, and so
kids ask about it. And so it's like, well, you
know, even if they didn't, you know, get involved
in the ham radio club, at least they know what
it is. And so, um, they have an idea of what
it's about. And so, yeah, that works great for
those homeowners associations. Yeah. And it is,
it's just planting seeds. You just never know
when it's going to take root and start to grow.
Absolutely. So let's talk about those, those
ones that do dig in a little bit deeper. What
are some of those other ham radio activities
that are connected with scouting? Yeah, I think
we have a great lineup. In fact, I think it's,
I describe it and I use this metaphor probably
way too often, but it's like a funnel. At the
top of the funnel is the jamboree on the air
and it's that introduction and scouts get kind
of fired up about that and then there's a radio
merit badge. And for those who are involved with
scouting, there's a fundamental premise within
scouting. Nothing happens unless there's a patch
involved. A patch or a badge or an advancement.
And radio merit badge is there. And as you mentioned,
Several hundred scouts have earned the badge
over the years. We went back and I was able to
get the archivists to do some research from 1950
or 1949 was as far back as they could go up to
the present time. And back in the in the 50s,
about one to 2000 scouts a year were earning
the merit badge. In the 80s, that dropped to
less than 1000 per year. But in the 90s, it started
going up. And something that happened during
that time is they dropped the Morris Code requirement.
And so right now, it's typically right at the
7 ,000 a year rate that scouts are earning the
radio merit badge. And then just in an aside
of that, I'll mention for scouts, I'm told this,
that there's only two kinds of merit badges that
they pay attention to. Eagle required merit badges
and easy merit badges. That is true. And frankly
the radio merit badge is an easy merit badge
for them to earn. There's a lot of one -day workshops
and at Jamboree we actually teach it in four
hours. So because we have everything there to
make it happen and do so quickly but thoroughly.
So it's a pretty straightforward merit badge
to earn. So it's a great Next step and then and
coming back to that That scouting model of it.
Nothing happens without a patch We also have
something called the amateur radio operator rating
strip This is a patch that can be sewn on your
uniform And the requirement to earn that patch
is if you have a ham radio license so on the
patch So it's for adults. It's for youth anybody
in the scouting program. And in the last 12 months,
there were almost 2 ,000 of those rating strips
sold. So it's a wonderful motivator. So I've
earned my radio merit badge. I love this. What's
next? Okay, well, let's for about a similar level
of effort to what it took you to get the radio
merit badge, let's work on studying for that
technician license. And once you've passed the
test, you've got another patch for your uniform.
Very good. Well, I was one of those rare kids
in the 80s that got in the radio merit badge,
but I distinctly remember this one line in the
book that I really enjoyed, and it was, if you
already have a ham radio license, you do not
have to take the code test. Cause I already had
my license for, you know, about nine, 10 years.
So I was like, Oh, okay. This is easy. And, um,
my dad and I actually put together some, uh,
a little, little project board and taught the
class, uh, to my troop. And, uh, and so a lot
of people in the troop got that one. in the 80s,
but yeah, I remember using a Morse code calculator,
which was a little strip of paper that had white
and black boxes that would represent dits and
dahs, and it had the letters on it, and so you
could go down, and if it was like white, white,
black, to get to that letter, then it was dit
dit dah. And so I remember using that, and it
was a good experience. Very good. Well and on
the topic of Morris code we have another patch
it's called the Morris code interpreter strip
and Interesting background on that one there
on a scouting uniform There's a place for what's
called an interpreter strip and normally well
all in all cases. It's about a language So if
if a scout speaks Spanish and can demonstrate
that to, you know, there's a set of requirements
for it, some translations, some conversation,
a letter, et cetera, that they need to do. They've
earned the Spanish interpreter strip, and it
says Espanol on it, and they sew that over one
of their patch, or their uniform pockets. And
that signifies to other Scouts when they're at
a gathering that, oh, Here's somebody that knows
Espanol. They can help me. They can help me understand
what's going on here. And it's available in many,
many, many languages. Well, we petitioned the
Awards and Insignia Committee. This is the BSA
National Radio Scouting Committee, submitted
a proposal. Basically, actually, we were looking
for an amateur radio, radio strip, and we submitted
a proposal about that. And the committee considered
it. And they came back to us and said, well,
this is a language interpreter strip and we read
your proposal and we don't really see anything
there. Then we thought about Morris code and
we went back and we looked at your proposal again
and it didn't have anything about Morris code.
So no, we can't do this. Well, we got that response.
About 30 minutes later, there was a proposal
in front of them for the Morris Code interpreter
strip. And about a day later, the approval came
back. And so there's an interpreter strip, and
on it is dash dash, dash dash dash, dit dot dit,
dit dit dit, dit. Morris, spelled out in dashes
and dots, and scouts who do five words per minute.
can sew that on their uniform. So it's a fun
thing, and it keeps Morse code alive as well.
Very, very good. Well, go ahead, Jim. One other
anecdote about that little communication. Later
on, I was talking at a scouting event with one
of the members of the awards and insignia committee,
and we were talking about that wonderful occurrence.
And he said to me, well, I guess we telegraphed
our intentions to you. So we have fun. Oh, absolutely.
One other thing I'll mention about patches is
there's a patch just for scouting leaders, and
it's called the A -R -R -L Service to Scouting
Award. And so the ARRL working with the Boy Scouts
of America created this award that recognizes
outstanding service to scouting through running
radio merit badge workshops, doing jamboree on
the air, and a number of other things. And that
was announced, I think, January of 2015. And
so far, right at 50, adult scout leaders have
earned that award. Very, very good. I'm glad
to see that happening and hopefully that will
continue to grow. That's a very nice recognition
of the partnership that ARRL has had with Boy
Scouts. In fact, as you know, ARRL was founded
in 1914 and BSA in 1911, but in 1918, The wireless
merit badge was established by ARRL working with
the BSA and the wireless merit badge became the
radio merit badge in the 1920s. So a long, long
time relationship. And it's nice to see this
recognition happening. Very good. And we want
to talk about another relationship that's going
on with Will and we're running way over time
here. But let me bring Will in here. And Will
was with ICOM America. And Will, tell us about
what ICOM's involvement has been with the Boy
Scouts and where you see this taking off in the
future. Absolutely, Neal. I'd be happy to. And
it's great to hear Jim talk about all the great
things going on with the K2BSA organization.
And ICOM has been fortunate enough to be able
to support the K2BSA operation since the early
80s, I believe, 1981, 82 or so. There have been
many Jamborees in that time, and we've been proud
to sponsor each and every one of them. And as
you mentioned earlier in the show, of course,
we have our demo stations that we can loan out
to local scouting troops and what have you, who
are looking to host their radio merit badge classes.
The kits have a 7300, one of our newest and hottest
radios right now. It's a good one. It sort of
resonates with the younger crowd. It's a newer
radio, some newer technology. Nice touchscreen
radio and what have you. So that's a great addition
to these kits is the 7300. And of course we give
them a power supply as well. All the coax to
hook everything together Of course an antenna
obviously it wouldn't be much of a kit without
an antenna. So there's a nice Nice wire antenna
form to string up in the trees and the radio
itself has a built -in antenna tuner So there
you have it that with the desk mic that's in
there as well. And it's it's a shack in a shack
in a box You know a phrase we use for a radio
that does it all, but this is literally a box
with a shack in it. You can find out all sorts
of information, see photos and things of that
on K2BSA's website, which is actually just k2bsa
.net. There's a tab up there that talks about
the ICOM loan stations. as well as some other
bits and pieces about ICOM's involvement with
the scouts. And of course, it is K2BSA's official
website. So you've got their calendar, all sorts
of information about what they do and what have
you. So I definitely encourage everybody to check
out the k2bsa .net website to learn lots more
about the loaner stations, ICOM's involvement
with the K2BSA organization, and of course, the
K2BSA organization itself, which is a marvelous,
marvelous gift to the ham radio world. And so
ICOM is very pleased and very fortunate to have
extended our relationship with the K2BSA organization
through 2018 now. So we'll be continuing the
loaner program through 2018. And of course, that
includes the National Jamboree coming up in 2017
as well. So that'll be very exciting for us in
the coming months to start looking at moving
that direction as well. So lots and lots of great
stuff going on with ICOM and the Scouts. We're
glad to see the next generation getting on the
air and using our spectrum. It's what we need.
We're very thankful for ICOM's involvement in
this as well as some other youth activities that
we've talked about on the show and more that
we will be talking about. So thank you so much
for continuing. support of Youth and Amateur
Radio especially tonight talking about the Scouts.
We're going to talk about the Girl Scouts just
a little bit and take your calls when we come
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to mention, real quickly, now we've got the Boy
Scout experts on here, but at the Hamvention
this year, the new Girl Scout patch that's sponsored
by ARRL was announced, so we don't want to leave
them out. The Girl Scouts have a radio and wireless
technology patch now and there's more information
about that on the ARRL website and one of my
students was actually fortunate enough to break
that announcement at the instructors forum at
Hamvention this year. So the Girl Scouts have
a patch too. Any comments from Jim or Will about
the Girl Scout thing? Well, I'll just mention
that Deborah Johnson at the ARRL has really worked
long and hard with the Girl Scouts to make that
happen. And I'll also note part of that announcement
was one of Girl Scouts' big events is Thinking
Day, and they now have a Thinking Day on the
air. It's it's been it's been a good effort from
Deborah and the NRL folks to work with the Girl
Scouts to help that along well, I I'm super glad
that the Girl Scouts are getting their patch.
I think it's great to Keep everything nice and
even across all the different avenues of scouting
I think that many of the young folks that I've
seen, I suppose a lot of folks would consider
me one of the young folks, but a lot of the younger
folks that I've seen have been young ladies who
have been getting excited about it. I had a chance
to meet a couple of them at Dayton myself this
year, so I'm glad to see that they're going to
have the opportunity to earn themselves an achievement
related to ham radio. You know, and let me add
to another perspective as well. Recently, the
Boy Scout movement is called the World Organization
of the Scout Movement. And for Girl Scouts, it's
the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts. And they've just signed earlier this
year, I think first part of this year, an agreement
to work together. And they have an agenda on
that. And so Jambri on the Air and Jambri on
the Internet, which is operated by the World
Organization of the Scout Movement, has always
invited Girl Scouts. But this time it's absolutely,
totally official from the very top that they're
a part of the event. So I think that's another
real positive element there in bringing those
two groups together. Yeah, very glad to hear
that they have a patch too and it's it's a little
different program, but it accomplishes the same
thing and Real glad to to hear about that. All
right. Well, it's time for your call So if you
have a question for Jim or for will about Scouting
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keep talking here for a while because we do that
well. But give us a call if you have a question.
And actually we do have a caller right now. Hello,
who's this? Good evening. This is Douglas wa1sfh
in Connecticut. How are you? Good Douglas. What's
your question for us tonight? Question is How
best to present? Amateur radio Within a council
who would we typically contact first? It seems
like you had This is going through an international
sort of representative or something Yeah, absolutely
Yes, Douglas, thanks for calling in and thanks
for what I would imagine is your persistence
in trying to work with the council. It's often
times very difficult. That structure that I mentioned
earlier is the World Organization and their event,
Jambry on the Internet. They work with the International
Department, which is part of Boy Scouts of America.
And at each local council, there's an international
representative. And they're the person whose
responsibility it is to promote and encourage
a Jambri on the Air and Jambri on the Internet
activation at their local council. Now, sometimes...
They're not aware of that. It's in their job
description. There's actually a written job description
they have. It's part of that job description.
But sometimes they're not aware. And then sometimes
an international representative might transition
to a different job, and the council hasn't replaced
them yet. So there's things like that that happen.
We can do a much better job. at a national level
communicating the importance of Jamri on the
air and Jamri on the internet to get it to that
local council level. But I'll also mention on
the K2BSA website, we've put up a document, the
National Radio Scouting Committee created this
document. It's called Talking Points. And it's
meant to be a translation tool in some cases
of Okay, here's what the ham radio people are
thinking. Here's what the scouting people are
thinking. Here's what to say as a ham radio operator
that will make a connection on the scouting side
of the conversation. For example, STEM, you know,
science, technology, engineering, math is something
that picks people's ears up now. And so you can
use that as an opening. to begin that discussion.
That's just one example, and there's a whole
line of them there to help with that conversation.
Yes, thank you. I've used that presentation at
a district level, but my goal is to go council
-wide. So I've been having some moderate success.
I've been with local troops getting into there.
various and districts getting into their fall
camperees and setting up a Jota station where
possible. So I'm looking again to go more from
a council level and council and down to the individual
units. You're a perfect example of what I recommend
to folks. So many times they'll get on the phone
to me and they'll be disappointed in their attempts
at trying to work with the council and I say,
do you know a troop? Start there. And that's
what you've done. You've started the troops in
district and just get... get the camel, get their
nose in the tent. And suddenly they start seeing
how, what a wonderful activity it is. And they
want it to happen everywhere. So good work. Good
work. Okay. Well, thank you for your time and
your great work with BSA. So let me sign off
and wish you all a good evening. Thanks for calling
in Douglas. We appreciate it. All right, we have
another question here from a call sign will may
know a B for BJ and That question is yeah sounds
kind of familiar are the scouts who are learning
amateur radio embracing CW or primarily voice
modes Actually, I'm going to I'm going to signify
probably well I would say PSK. That's answering
the intent of the question about what are they
embracing or what are they getting excited about
when they just first start getting engaged with
amateur radio. PSK and those kinds of digital
modes are very similar to what they're doing
all day, texting. It has a connection for them.
And those who are listening in the audience who
run the Jota stations see this all the time.
Scouts will get in front of a microphone and
they'll lock up. It's just mic fright. And we
try to give them scripts and break that down.
But it's pretty intimidating for them at first.
Now, of course, I also hear the stories once
they get accustomed to it, they're all over it
and having a great time talking to other scouts.
So I would say we offer CW to them. We don't
have any real numbers about what they're getting
excited about, but certainly they're on the air
with microphones, with handy talkies, and they're
on the air using PSK and some of the digital
modes that they find pretty cool. Yeah, I've
found PSK definitely works for the ones that
have Mike fright in working with young people
so that's That's not surprising. We've got about
30 seconds left. Jim. I know you wanted to say
something About the icon partnership, so I'll
give you 30 seconds 30 seconds. Okay. Well, I
wanted to talk the 2017 Jamboree is coming up
And also for 2013 Jamboree, ICOM is the official
transceiver supplier for the National Scout Jamboree.
That's in July. There's 40 ,000 people show up
for that. And in 2012, they installed three repeaters
at the location for the Jamboree at the summit,
Bechtel Scout Reserve in West Virginia. So they
are over the top supporters of scouting. And
then just a quick mention. Also supporting the
Jamboree, DX Engineering has agreed to support
the Jamboree with all the other stuff that we
need to help those transceivers get on the air,
and MFJ is going to help us as well. And so we
really appreciate Tim Duffy and Terry Greaser
at DX Engineering for helping us out with that,
and MFJ, of course, and Martin Ju. But the ICOM
guys, wow, thanks so much. Absolutely. Will,
good job. And that's a wrap for this week's edition
of HamTalk Live. I'd like to thank my guests,
Will Jordan, AA4WJ, and Jim Wilson, K5ND, and
all the callers and listeners out there in cyberspace,
and invite you back next Thursday night at 9
p .m. Eastern Time when Glenn Johnson, W0GJ,
will be here to talk about DXpeditions and his
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saying 7375, and may the good DX be yours! The
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