Every year the 3rd weekend in October JOTA (Jamboree on the Air) and JOTI (Jamboree on the Internet) a world wide scout event takes place. JOTA and JOTI is an event where scouts from all over the world communicate with each other either through Amateur-Radio or the Internet. This year over 1.3 million Scouts and Guides communicated with one another across different towns and countries all over the world. In charge of this event in Namibia is Michael „Rambo“ Rudloff the National Jota & Joti Coordinator. "For us Scouts it is THE event of the Year, followed by the National Camp. We make 110% sure that the Scouts from all over the world can hear us." Just for this occasion, Scouts of Namibia HQ in Windhoek has a complete operating Radio station with Transceivers, an OptiBeam 17/4 antenna and an internet chat-shack. That is all we need. From Friday 12 o'clock until Sunday 12h00 o'clock the Scouts of Namibia started to chat on scoutlink.net and transmitted on all bands (10m to 40m) like there was no tomorrow... Every one was busy chatting and talking to the world giving their best. Although it sounds easy, there is more to it as it seems. Every contact a Scout makes must be logged with date, time, location etc. At the end of this weekend two trophies (Jota and Joti) were waiting for the one with the most contacts. After 48 hours all contacts were counted. This year Scouts from 1st Tsumeb, 1st Otjiwarongo, 1st Windhoek, 3rd Windhoek, 5th Windhoek took part in this event. Most of our Scouts did chat through the internet which is a bit easier than talking over the radio. But a hand full of scouts had the guts and did communicate through radio. This type of communication is a bit more complicated, but the moment you get used to the "Noise-box" Radio-communication is even more fun. This years Radio operators were: Michael Rudloff (V51Q) Seraina Diekmann (almost Radio amateur) and our newest Radio member Silke Redecker. All 3 were operating the National Scout station V55JOTA and…WOW… did the world hear us....! Although the propagation was not that good the Scouts of Namibia made there mark in this year’s event. Hundreds and hundreds of station called us during these 48 hours. We made contacts all over the world and also met some old radio friends from earlier events: Michael and Susi OE3J from Austria, Mark DO4DXA from Germany and the Scout HQ HB9S in Switzerland. The JOTI-Trophy went this year to Christian Strohbach (1st Windhoek) with 313 Internet contacts. Followed with 306 contacts by Katja von Blottnitz (5th Windhoek). The JOTA-Trophy went this year for the 3rd time to our "almost radio amateur" Seraina Diekmann (15yo) from 1st Otjiwarongo. She alone did 501 QSOs (contacts), 300 more than last year. We are also very happy to welcome Silke Redecker in out JOTA team. She as a beginner did another 50 contacts by herself, bringing the total radio score to 1222 QSO´s. This year we made 2361 contacts in 74 country's all around the globe. 1222 contacts were made by the Radio (JOTA) group and 1139 contacts by the internet (JOTI) group. Just a few to mention from the JOTI group: Indonesia, Norway, Sweden, England, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Argentina, France and for the first time in six years a Joti-chat from Russia was logged. A few Scout stations worked by the JOTA group: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Reunion Island, Benin, China, Columbia and Australia. We all had a blast of a weekend with a lot of fun.... The only thing we did not have and that came to short was our sleep....! But we all would do this over and over again. Just the next time we would like to ask Telecom not to do any work on the internet line during our Scout event. Achim Foldur & Katja von Blottnitz