Patrol Practices in Signalling

Practise the laying, lighting and use of signal fires of smoke or flame.

Practise whistle and drill signals.

Have a competition in the Patrol in concealing dispatches on the person: give each Scout a small piece of paper and allow him to hide it on himself. Pair Scouts off and let each search the other. The one whose paper takes longest to find is the winner.

Here is an English sentence you can use for practice in signalling: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." It contains all the letters of the alphabet.

Each Patrol invents its own secret code. The other Patrols try to decipher it.

Patrols compete in finding the most ingenious way of sending a Morse message without use of special apparatus.

All signalling practices should be as real as possible. From the beginning separate letters can be sent and read across as wide a space as may be available, preferably out-of-doors.

Author

Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (Chief Scout, London, UK)

Date of Creation

1908

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