From ARVic, original post here.

The 24th Australian Scout Jamboree at Cataract Scout Park south of Sydney on January 3-14, saw the Amateur Radio base VI 2 AJ 2016 expose our diverse hobby to many young people.

The Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club manages the facility. David Uzzell VK2HDM says Amateur Radio is as relevant as it has always been, yet most people don’t realise it. Innovation and advancement have come from experimenters for more than 100 years.

He says the Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club showed satellite advanced communication, propagation experiments, voice codec advancements, and Internet based VoIP technologies.  Scouts from around Australia and overseas had the hands-on fun regularly enjoyed by radio amateurs, with some new and revolutionary technologies.

FUNcube receivers heard FUNcube satellites that are not much bigger than your average school lunch box floating in orbit.  The radio amateurs demonstrated how to communicate through satellites like AO-85.

The Scouts could also see a picture sent around the world by SSTV (Slow Scan TV) using only the Amateur Radio transceiver.  The Internet Repeater Linking Project was also in action. Foxhunting proved very popular.

Congratulations to the Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club over the two-week Jamboree – well done.