The amateur radio station HB9S of the World Scout Bureau in Geneva will operated again this JOTA from the Geneva Scout Centre "Les Perouses" on the outskirts of Geneva for the full JOTA weekend.

QTH locator: JN36AE.
Coordinates: 46° 12' 18" 38 N, 6° 2' 19" 17 E.
To find QTH locators, click here.

The station will be active on all short-wave and VHF bands during the full JOTA weekend. In addition, HB9S will use the Echolink network to connect to distant radio stations. With a bit of luck, you may be able to make a contact using your local repeater station and just a portable radio.

At HB9S, you can speak directly with the World Scout Bureau staff. The station is run by an international team of Scout radio operators. This year's team:

Guenter, DL9BCP
Paul, PA5UL
Frank, M0AEU
Yves, HB9AOF, station manager
Richard, PA3BAR, World JOTA Organizer

The operators will be supported by a training group of Swiss Scout leaders and a rover Scout group from Annemasse, France.

HB9S will be particulary equipped this year for long-distance contacts on 40 m. Also we will be capable to make contacts in PSK32, SSTV and other digital modes.

On Echolink you can connect HB9S directly on node number 140006. Alternatively, you can connect yourself to the Geneva repeater HB9GE (439.425 MHz / CTCSS 67 Hz) with node number 193835 and call us on UHF. Please use this restrictively as it does occupy the UHF repeater of Geneva city.

For all bands: HB9S will be at or close to the World Scout Frequencies.

You may send requests for pre-arranged contacts (skeds) in advance to the station manager by email: margoty@mysunrise.ch. Please note the propagation predictions when selecting sked times.

Making a contact with HB9S may sometimes take some patience. Usually many stations are calling at the same time. The operators will do their very best to make contact with Scout stations world-wide and speak to Scouts in as many languages as possible.

Look forward to meet you on the air....!