Cardiff and District RAYNET to attend Barry Scout and Guide fete

Cardiff and District RAYNET will be attending the Barry Scout and Guide fete on Saturday 2nd July. The purpose of the visit is to raise awareness of the services RAYNET can provide to the community.

It will also be an opportunity for the local scouts and guides to experience radio communications as the team will be setting up radio stations across the arena for the youngsters to utilise and hopefully pique their interest to go on to complete communications badges with their groups and maybe take up the hobby of Amateur radio in the future.

The highlight of the Radio Scouting year is Jamboree on the Air, or JOTA in which Scouts and Guides all over the world speak to each other by means of amateur radio contacts.

Started in 1957, it now involves approximately 600,000 Scouts and Guides, with the help of over 23,000 radio amateurs in over 100 countries.

JOTA takes place on the third full weekend of October each year, officially between 00.00 Saturday and 24.00 Sunday Cardiff and District RAYNET hopes that this event on 2nd of July will encourage more scouts to take up JOTA and the use of Amateur Radio as a lifetime hobby, children as young as 9 years of age have studied for and obtained amateur radio licences and experience worldwide communications as part of their everyday life..

Dave Thomas Group Controller For Cardiff and District RAYNET said:

“We welcome the opportunity to promote our involvement in the communities of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, the place in which our members live, and offer their time and equipment to benefit these local areas in times of need.

It will be great to give the youngsters the chance to experience radio communications by the provision of radio equipment set up on the day, to allow them to speak with each other locally and experience real live worldwide communications from our listening station also set up for the day.

Members of the Public interested in the work we do and possibly looking to consider volunteering with RAYNET can approach us at the event and have discussions on what we do to assist in times of need an what is involved in becoming part of our group”.

You can look up Cardiff and district RAYNET via our website www.cad-raynet.wales for more information and contact us directly via the links on the site.