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21st Jul 2018, 11:10 am | #1 |
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Girl Guide Badges and radio.
It would appear that the Girl Guides are modernising their list of achievement badges and as part of that plan Radio Operating has been dropped. I wasn't aware that there was a badge for that but on occasion a photo of Boy Scouts or Girl Guides sitting beside an amateur radio installation being mentored by a licensed operator appears in the press. So it's official. We are obsolete. I would have thought that even learning the basics of two way hand-portable radio operating would have been useful considering the type of outdoor activities the organisation support. Oh well...
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21st Jul 2018, 11:20 am | #2 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
My wife who was in the Girl Guides for many years cannot remember a badge for that either.
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21st Jul 2018, 11:20 am | #3 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
Nah, it's all done by mobile 'phone these days, isn't it?
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21st Jul 2018, 11:38 am | #4 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
How about how to charge a mobile phone without a mains supply or how to find a useable signal in a marginal area then?
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21st Jul 2018, 11:50 am | #5 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
Scouts still appear to recognise amateur radio to some extent:
https://members.scouts.org.uk/suppor...cat=26,407,351 https://members.scouts.org.uk/suppor...79&moduleID=10 |
21st Jul 2018, 11:52 am | #6 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
Wife certainly thinks a badge for “How to use Technology...” should included, but not impressed with one for “Mixing Cocktails “!
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21st Jul 2018, 12:14 pm | #7 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
We all know that mobile phones signals don't get everywhere, but a few low power "walky-talkies" will do the job when you just need to communicate across a field in the middle of nowhere, or administrate a first aid response in a deep valley. That's progress for you.
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
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When I was in the cubs / scouts (70s) amateur radio was certainly on the agenda. I remember much mirth was had by the family when I attained a naturalist badge that had a piccy of a tortoise on it - The inference being it was being slow and late for everything !
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21st Jul 2018, 3:56 pm | #9 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
I think the guides still have 'thinking day on the air' as their version of JOTA.
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22nd Jul 2018, 10:54 pm | #10 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
When my middle daughter was in the Guides (she is now 35!) she gained her Radio Communicator's badge. I was teaching the RAE at the time and one of my pupils was a Guide leader. Getting the badge involved attending a Thinking Day On The Air event and several other radio-related tasks.
I remember they had to send off to Guide HQ for the badge, as no-one could ever remember one being awarded in this area. Note that the current Brownies "Communicator" badge still includes options of attending TDOTA, knowing about walkie-talkies and so on: https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-...communicator2/ Things have obviously gone downhill since Semaphore ceased to be compulsory. I have already taught my three granddaughters how to use a simple walkie-talkie. The most important lesson being "Now, this is the release-to-listen button..."
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23rd Jul 2018, 12:50 am | #11 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
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23rd Jul 2018, 8:40 am | #12 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
I got my Girl Guide badge for 'Radio Operating' way back in 1959. I was awarded it for producing the largest number of interference spots over the longest distance on a 1952 Band 1 television receiver.
Only three components were employed. An ignition coil, an old car battery and a length of wire. Mind you that was back in 1959 and would be frowned upon today.. John. |
23rd Jul 2018, 9:37 am | #13 |
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That would be a bit of wire about 3.3 metres long, then.........
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23rd Jul 2018, 5:50 pm | #14 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
Quite possibly..J.
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23rd Jul 2018, 7:38 pm | #15 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
Prior to 1984 it was only a civil offence.
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23rd Jul 2018, 7:39 pm | #16 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
Back on topic please.
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23rd Jul 2018, 11:19 pm | #17 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
I got our local Cubs their telecommunications badge some years ago (there were as many girls as boys in the Cubs) with the help of another Morse op (ex-RN) and a couple of Aldis lamps and some PMR446 radios.
For youngsters brought up with instant and ready communications in computers and mobile phones, they were very interested in what we did and the magic was still there.
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24th Jul 2018, 7:45 am | #18 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
How to gain the boy scout badge in them old
days. Wireless and radio mechanic. 9p.
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24th Jul 2018, 7:50 am | #19 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
It's hard to tell from the thumbnail, but does that read 9p or 9d? The book looks definitely pre-decimalisation!
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24th Jul 2018, 8:02 am | #20 |
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Re: Girl Guide Badges and radio.
It does suffer a little from the resolution of forum images, but I'm pretty sure it's a pre-decimal 9D.
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