GB2GP - Gilwell Park Amateur Radio Station

25/10/2024

We had a great weekend at JOTA/JOTI 2024 at Gilwell Park Scout Activity Centre... Overall we had 446 radio contacts (including 52 Scout contacts) in 57 different countries. Our Skype station had 41 contacts across 4 continents!
Here are a few of the images from around the event.

27/09/2024

Last JOTA/JOTI the radio station at GB2GP made 300 contacts in over 100 countries and with more than 50 Scout Groups - what can we do this year? Come and join us and experience the excitement and friendship of shortwave radio - book your places now!
https://scouts.cinolla.com/Gilwellpark/course/jota-joti-2024

21/09/2024

Gilwell Park - GB2GP - will again be taking part in JOTA-JOTI this year on the 19/20th October.

If you would like to bring your young people to enjoy a day of technology and adventurous activities at Gilwell Park Scout Activity Centre please book your place here: https://scouts.cinolla.com/Gilwellpark/course/jota-joti-2024

To see what we got up to last year (we've got similar planned for this year!), have a look at our video here:
https://jota.gb2gp.org.uk/gb2gp-station-video-tours/

Hope to see you for the Jamboree on the Air!

02/12/2023

We've analysed the logbooks from GB2GP this JOTA and this is what we've found:
We made 389 contacts
We contacted 57 different countries
We spoke to at least 48 Scout stations! (It's hard to know if there were more if the callsign wasn't obviously a Scout station!)

08/11/2023

Our Jamboree on the Air/Jamboree on the Internet 2023 official video from our friends at Scout Content ASU.
Gilwell Park Scout Adventures Centre.

01/11/2023

01/11/2023

During JOTA 2023 we did a live linkup with the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) Conference, giving them a guided tour of our JOTA/JOTI station in the CIC at Gilwell Park Scout Activity Centre
Watch the guided tour here:

A live guided tour of the Gilwell Park GB2GP JOTA/JOTI station 2023 for the British Amateur Television Club conference CAT23.

23/10/2023

Some photos from our JOTA weekend at Gilwell Park this weekend.

18/10/2023

Are you taking part in JOTI this weekend?
Look out for our station on Skype - search for 'Scouts Gilwell Park'

21/09/2023

Join us this October for the return of our popular JOTA/JOTI and Adventurous Activities days! Follow the link below for tickets at Gilwell Park, Broadstone Warren and Youlbury Activity Centres.

A jamboree with a twist! JOTA/JOTI is the world’s largest digital and radio Scout event promoting friendship and global citizenship.

Join us at Scout Adventures for half a day of Jamboree on the Air/Internet, and half a day of adventurous activities.

https://scouts.eventsair.com/jotajoti/bookings

13/12/2022

Season's greetings from GB2GP - Gilwell Park.

17/10/2022

15/10/2022

Plenty of activity today on the DMR JOTA Talkgroup 907...
Listen to all the action here:

Listen to radio amateurs using the DMR radio system to talk to each other. This uses handheld or mobile radios connected to a local ‘hotspot’. These hotspots are then linked to each other using the Internet. By this method contacts worldwide are possible. In the lead up to JOTA this systm is lis...

14/10/2022

Did you know that radio amateurs can use satellites to pass messages? I'm sure you did! Look out for a special message to Scouts this weekend on AO-73: FunCube1.
For more information about amateur radio satellites visit our page:

Welcome to this page where you can examine actual real-time data coming from spacecraft that are in orbit around the earth.

12/10/2022

We've updated our web page ready for this weekend's JOTA... For some ideas of activities, and to see where GB2GP is operating, have a look at: https://jota.gb2gp.org.uk
While you're there - please sign our visitors book!
https://jota.gb2gp.org.uk/guest-book/
Happy everyone!

Erwin Van Der Haar from Mook, The Netherlands wrote on September 6, 2022 at 9:32 am Looking forward to a radio contact with GB2GP during the upcoming JOTA weekend. We host scouts and visitors from our previous JOTA events, including Richard Middelkoop and his wife Mirjam. Our station call will be PA...