Guides on the Air
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Guides on the Air also known as Thinking Day on the Air (TDOTA), is an event for Girl Guides. It is held the third full weekend in February, close to Thinking Day, which is February 22. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts get together with amateur radio
operators to talk to sisters in Guiding and Scouting around the world over the air and more recently in various other ways, such as IRC (Guides on the internet). In Canada
GOTA is sponsored by the Canadian Ladies Amateur Radio Association.
Amateur radio
Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...
operators to talk to sisters in Guiding and Scouting around the world over the air and more recently in various other ways, such as IRC (Guides on the internet). In Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
GOTA is sponsored by the Canadian Ladies Amateur Radio Association.
See also
- Jamboree on the AirJotaJota may refer to:*the name of J, the tenth letter of the Spanish alphabet and Portuguese alphabet*Jota , a type of Spanish music and dance*Jota, a bean-sauerkraut soup of Slovenian/Croatian origin*Laverda Jota, a motorcycle...
, a similar event for ScoutScoutingScouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society....
s - Lone GuidesLone GuidesLone Guides or Lones are those Girl Guides and Girl Scouts who do not attend group meetings for a variety of reasons. They are organised into groups that keep in touch, for example, by letter or email. Members carry out their organisation's normal programme on their own as much as they are able....
- Thinking Day