Identification (call sign) of the station. The Jamboree amateur radio station will identify with the call sign XR3J. the XR prefix is used in Chile for special events, figure 3 shows the area 3 in Chile and the J stands for Jamboree. Antennas and masts. one heavy-duty mast with a 9 element 20 meter-band monoband beam or TH6DXX beam; rotatable. one medium mast with a 2 meter-band antenna and a 70 cm-band antenna; rotatable. one heavy-duty mast with a 3 element multi-band beam for the 20/15/10 meter-band; rotatable. two light masts with dipole antennas for the 80 and 40 meter bands. one small mast with a 2 meter-band antenna for internal amateur radio traffic at the Jamboree site. The tallest mast carries the call sign of the station in large letters. Mast heights are approximately 20 meter. Radio equipment. The radio equipment will enable the scouts to contact virtually any point on earth. Contacts can be made in normal voice (phone), Morse code (CW), packet-radio (PR) and television (ATV and SSTV). Five separate operating postions are set up: HF, 10, 15 and 20 m band, phone, CW HF, 10, 15 and 20 m band, SSTV HF, 40 and 80 m band, phone, CW VHF, 6 m, phone UHF, 70 cm and 2 m band, attached to packet-radio SHF, 3 cm band, attached to Amateur Television ATV Computers. On several positions personal computers are used for various purposes. These are dedicated machines and may under no condition be used for other purposes. We do not want a situation where programme parts cannot be carried out because someone decided to run some other programmes on a computer.

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