JOTA 2011 — ‘Peace, Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Disasters’
The theme of the Jam­boree on the Air to be held on the 15–16 Octo­ber is “Peace, Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Disasters”.
IARU Inter­na­tion­al Coor­di­na­tor for Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Hans Zim­mer­mann F5VKP/ F/HB9AQS, said “This year’s JOTA theme is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to raise the aware­ness for the role of the Ama­teur Radio Ser­vice in dis­as­ter sit­u­a­tions.” Hans believes we should all sup­port this ini­tia­tive by direct con­tact between the respec­tive emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions groups and JOTA organ­is­ers. World JOTA organ­is­er of the World Scout Bureau, Richard Mid­dle­coop PA3BAR, has asked for help to estab­lish con­tacts between nation­al JOTA organ­is­ers and emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions groups.
Infor­ma­tion about JOTA/JOTI can be found at: http://scout.org/en/information_events/events/jota/the_54th_jota_2011
— Hans Zim­mer­mann, F5VKP / HB9AQS, IARU Inter­na­tion­al Coor­di­na­tor for Emer­gency Communications