The Radio Merit Badge requirements were updated effective January 1, 2017. Here’s a quick review of the changes: A new option for the Radio Merit Badge is Amateur Radio Direction Finding. This combines orienteering and foxhunting and opens a new interactive component to this program. In…
Jamboree-on-the-Air
Jamboree-on-the-Air, or JOTA, is the largest Scouting event in the world. It is held annually the third full weekend in October. JOTA uses amateur radio to link Scouts and hams around the world, around the nation, and in your own community. This jamboree requires no…
Equipment Update Aug 2021
From the Wavelengths Newsletter August 2021 edition: 2 Dipole antennas are ready to assemble for the club and Jim Simpson is making an aluminum “patch panel” for the radios. LEDs are being installed in the radio room.
4-H Club Update
Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer informed XWARN members at the latest meeting that the 4-H club is soon to be up and running. He picked up the key equipment on April 13 (the day after the April meeting) and as soon as he gets clearance…
Greene County Ham Radio 4-H Club Update
The new 4-H club in Greene County, based on the hobby we all know so well, will hopefully be able to start meeting! At the February XWARN meeting, Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer informed us that the meetings, which will take place at the Greene…