Northwest Amateur Radio Club
Scouting Centenary Event
 G.M.W. Scout County Rally
'Passage Of Time' 25th - 27th May 2007
In 2007, the Scouting movement celebrated its worldwide Centenary. Over
the bank Holiday weekend of 25-28th May, Scout groups throughout the UK
staged
Centenary Camps. Northwest ARC were one of three local radio clubs in the Greater Manchester region
that ran a Special Event station on the
weekend of 25th to 27th May 2007 to commemorate 100 years of Scouting.
GB1COS
Centenary Of Scouting
The other clubs
involved were
Warrington ARC - GB5COS Centenary Of Scouting
West Manchester RC - GB4COS Centenary Of Scouting
The location of our event was Bispham Hall Scout Estate, Billinge.
See map below. VHF and HF communications were successfully established wiith SSTV mode on
14.230 MHz..
Saturday was a busy day with no fewer than 185 Scouts
passing through the tent. Communications between sites performed well on 2
metres enabling the scouts to communicate greetings with each other. Good
contacts were also made into Europe on 20 metres.
Sunday was wet as predicted meaning fewer scouts came to
visit us. The free time was put to good use to work the radios but
unfortunately the inclement weather also dampened the working conditions.
Amongst the many contacts into Europe we
did have one contact into North America but the QSO faded and contact was
lost.
Good contact was made with Southport and District ARC
running special event station GB1HYS and also a scout
station in Cumbria whose call sign escapes me at the moment. Both stations
gave good inter-site communications with scouts passing greeting messages.
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Other Special Event Stations that
operated
during this event
Southport and District ARC - GB1HYS Centenary Of Scouting
International Special Event Stations
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Netherlands |
PA100S |
| Japan |
8J1S and 8J100S |
| Taiwan |
BP100S
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Austria |
OE4XJA |
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Ireland |
EI100S and
EI100SI |
| Greece |
SX100VAR |
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Poland |
HF100S and
3Z100S |
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