4th APR Air / Internet Jamboree 2008 -Station 9M1CSJ

4th APR Air / Internet Jamboree 2008
ScoutsJB Official Badge

Date : 2nd to 3rd August 2008
Venue : SKPK Princess Elizabeth
Time : 8.30am to 5.00pm
Camp fee : RM10 (inclusive one badge and one APR certificate)

Station Call Sign : 9M1CSJ

SKPK Princess Elizebeth address is:
Sekolah Kebangsaan Pendidikan Khas (SKPK)
Lorong 5, Jalan Nong Chik, 80100 Johor Bahru Johore.
Phone number, 07-2224068.
Fax number, 07-2213762.



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Official Organiser : Bangladesh Scout Association
Official Web Address : http://www.bangladeshscouts.org.bd/4apaijam/

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JASRA serving the request from Scouts Association of Johor Bahru and MARTS

About the Callsign 9M1CJS:

This is a special callsign for Scouts in Malaysia for Year 2008. This callsign will be used for all JOTA event for the year 2008. May: Malaysia JOTA, August: APR JOTA & October: JOTA. The abbreviation for 9M1CSJ is 9M:Malaysia | 1CS:One Century of Scouting | J:Johor.

Johor Bahru Station with CallSign 9M1CSJ is ready eqquiped with 2 HF pointing East-West and North-West/South-East direction and 2 VHF with access to Gateway 9M4GJB and Local Repeater 9M4RJB(145.600Mhz/-0.6/T203.5).

Johor Bahru Station Master:
9M2NP Thango
(Ex-NAVY Radio Operator - Lead Hand)
(Advisor of JASRA)

Sea Scout Manual by Boy Scouts of America

1949 copy

1942 copy

Bosun's Call Whistle Sea Scout Cadet Boatswain's Pipe

ABOUT BOATSWAIN'S AND BOSUN'S calls (WHISTLES):
More that the ship's captain, one man on board and one man only, was responsible for a pleasant or a hellish voyage for the ship's crew. He was the boatswain, the first warant officer responsible for handling the crew. Boatswain is one of the oldest seafaring titles and Old English 'basegen', meaning boat's swain or husband, at that time the actual commander of the ship.

The high pitched call signal could be heard across the din of the howling wind, the tumult of the towering waves as they came crashing over the decks. That was when the 'master' most needed his men to listen to the whistle's signals, be it 'Men aloft' or 'Let go....'

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE: The notes made by the whistle are produced by blowing with an even pressure or blowing with a varying pressure to give a warbling sound or trilling sound by vibrating the tongue. To make a variable throttling effect, just close the hand round the bouy