{"id":50549,"date":"2026-09-18T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=50549"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:41:09","slug":"also-in-gb2rs-this-week-537","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/09\/18\/also-in-gb2rs-this-week-537\/","title":{"rendered":"Also in GB2RS this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jamboree on the Air<\/strong> is taking place between Wednesday, 16 October and Friday, 18 October.<\/p>\n<p>It is the world\u2019s largest radio Scout event and is a brilliant celebration of amateur radio among the groups within the Scout Association.<\/p>\n<p>It also promotes friendship and global citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB Youth Vice-Chair and Youth Champion for Scouts, Sam McCutchion, M0UEL will be compiling a list of JOTA stations which will be shared on the RSGB website.<\/p>\n<p>If you are part of a Scouting group and are planning to get involved with JOTA then please contact youthchampion.scouts@rsgb.org.uk\u00a0 as soon as possible with your station name, callsign and any other relevant information.<\/p>\n<p>Sam is encouraging everyone to get involved either by putting a station on the air or listening out for the JOTA stations so let him know how you are supporting the events.<\/p>\n<p>The annual <strong>Railways on the Air<\/strong> event will take place on Saturday, 26 September and Sunday, 27 September. The following frequencies are suggested for use: 3.650, 7.150 and 14.250MHz.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Auckland Amateur Radio Club coordinates this event and you can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/rota.barac.org.uk\/\">rota.barac.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>deadline for the GB2RS News<\/strong> on Sunday, 27 September is 10am on Wednesday, 23 September.<\/p>\n<p>Please send details of all your news and events to radcom@rsgb.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamboree on the Air is taking place between Wednesday, 16 October and Friday, 18 October. It is the world\u2019s largest radio Scout event and is a brilliant celebration of amateur radio among the groups within the Scout Association. It also promotes friendship and global citizenship. The RSGB Youth Vice-Chair and Youth Champion for Scouts, Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50551,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50549\/revisions\/50551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}