WSBT Explorer Post 324, Phil Ostrander Interview 1973

In 1959 teenager Phil Ostrander was hired by the WSBT Radio and Television stations in South Bend, Indiana. Phil became a mainstay producer and director at the stations for more than three decades until he grew his personal production company to a full time endeavor. In the early 1960s Phil volunteered to became Adviser of Explorer Post 324 that was sponsored by the WSBT stations. For decades men and women of high school age produced radio and television programs for the stations and traveled to all corners of the nation doing radio, television, and film public relations work covering events of the Boy Scouts of America.

In August of 1973 Explorer Post 324 assembled and ran a low power AM radio station that serviced the thousands of attendees at the National Boy Scout Jamboree held at Moraine State Park in Western Pennsylvania. This two minute news feature was made and aired by a television station in that Pennsylvania market.

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• 1973 Boy Scout Jamboree
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• Phil Ostrander
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• South Bend
• Indiana

[HobbyBroadcaster]

It would be interesting to see if this station was licensed as an experimental station of if this was a Part 15 station. Many of the members of the HobbyBroadcaster net forums are doing this sort of broadcasting under FCC Part 15 regualtions.

[RadioTom103]

What a surprise to see this! I was a member of Explorer Post 324 and operated the AM station at the 1973 Scout Jamboree. I still have our extremely long identification etched into my brain:

KBSA is a low powered broadcast station, sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America, authorized by the FCC and operating from Moraine State Park Pennsylvania. It is intended to provide information to scouts attending the national scout jamboree, August 1st through the 7th, 1973."

What a great time we had!