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Internet Jamboree Every year on the first weekend of August, Scouts “get together� and make friends over the airwaves and on the internet. In the last three consecutive years, the Air Internet Jamboree (AIJ) was hosted by Malaysia in 2010, Scouts of China in 2011, and Korea in 2012. On 7th August 2010, it was a lively afternoon in Kuala Lumpur as Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia hosted the 6th Asia Pacific Region Air/Internet Jamboree. Some 60km away, in Hulu Selangor, over 200 Scouts joined the sub-launch of the Air Jamboree and much farther away, in Suncheon City, where 12,000 Scouts were camping at the 27th APR Scout Jamboree, a soft launch of the air/internet jamboree was held on 7th August morning. Scouts of China hosted the AIJ on 6-7 August 2011. The radio station was set up at the HQ building using special call sign BV07APR. A special badge and QSL card were produced to commemorate this event. A web page was created and over 5,400 visitors used the webpage and the link to the Facebook before and during the Jamboree weekend. Participants made 288 comments. There were 1,876 scouts who registered in the webpage and certificates of participation were printed out for them. Coinciding with the Korea National Jamboree was the 8th Asia-Pacific Air/ Internet Jamboree hosted by Korea Scout Association on the weekend of 4-5 August 2012. The Air/Internet Jamboree started in 2004 as a platform for Scouts to contact each other by means of amateur radio and the Internet.
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APR Triennial Report 2009-2012