GOTA 2004 - Guides On The Air!

Modified January 2004

Saturday 21st February & Sunday 22nd February 2004

GOTA is an opportunity for Guides, from Sparks to Guiders, to talk to other members of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts all over the world via Amateur radio. Outside Canada, GOTA is known as Thinking Day on the Air - TDOTA. GOTA and TDOTA are held every year on the third full weekend in February. This is a weekend close to Thinking Day - the day when Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world remember the founders of Guiding and Scouting as well as their sisters in WAGGGS - the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. GOTA/TDOTA is a fun way to reach out to some WAGGGS sisters during Guide-Scout week!

what is GOTA?
where can I get more information?
what is a QSL card?
Crafts for GOTA
where does this fit into Guiding program?
how do we prepare the girls?
what can we talk about?
how do I find a ham?
what is the phonetic alphabet?
what does the ham (radio amateur) need to know?
where do I get the crests?
what frequencies do I use?
how & when did GOTA start?
what is CLARA?

This web page is the very amateurish work of Helen Archibald, VA1YL, ex VE2YAK, VE2GGQ - CLARA coordinator for GOTA and former Senior Branches Guider in Cabana Area, Quebec with Girl Guides of Canada - Guides du Canada, now living in Nova Scotia & taking part in Guiding there.