Scouts Communicator Activity Badge
Communication can help us reach out to more people, from longer distances and using a wide range of languages. Work towards your Communicator badge and help bring people closer together.
Choose 1 of the following Options
1. Radio communication
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You automatically gain this activity badge if you already hold, or working towards, any of these qualifications:
Radio Amateur Licence (Foundation, Intermediate or Full)
If not, complete all of these:
a. Learn the regulations governing the use of amateur radio equipment.
b. Visit an amateur radio station.
c. Log 25 different amateur radio stations. Note the date, time, call sign, frequency, readability and location.
You may include some broadcast stations.
d. Show how to tune a simple communications receiver.
e. Give an example of a typical greetings message.
f. Explain in simple terms how radio waves travel around the world.
g. Learn the more commonly used HF and VHF amateur frequency bands.
h. Learn the phonetic alphabet and define at least eight international Q code signals.
i. Show that you can recognise call signs from the UK and near continent.
Choose three of these activities to complete:
- Write three simple messages using codes, ciphers, invisible ink, or semaphore.
- Report on a local event, either past or present. It could be written for a newsletter or recorded.
- Find out how people with visual or hearing impairments communicate. Learn a simple phrase in one of these.
- Hold a simple conversation in another language.
