Communicator (Cub)

Badge Requirements

1. Demonstrate how to use a private and public telephone and if possible use a phone card.

2. Know how to make an emergency telephone call. 

3. Choose any three of the following activities:- 

(a) Find out about and make use of at least two of the following:

i) Facsimile machine (FAX), 

ii) Answering machine, 

iii) Walkie talkie, 

iv)Teletext, 

v) Mobile phone, 

vi) Electronic mail, 

vii) Citizen Band (C.B.) radio 

viii) Any other telecommunication device.

(b) Make a verbal or taped report of a local event either past or present.

(c) Write and decipher three simple messages using codes, ciphers or invisible ink.

(d) Hold a simple conversation in another language.

(e) Make and maintain a link over a short time with another Cub Scout from a different Pack using electronic mail, videos or letters, etc.

(f) Find out how other people with a visual or hearing impairment communicate, e.g. Braille, sign language, etc.

(g) Memorise a message and deliver it 20 minutes later.

(h) Pass a message to someone else using Amateur Radio or send an SMS using a handphone.

(i)Find out about the the 3G and/or 4G (LTE) Networks and explain, in your own words, how it works to transmit data wirelessly.

(j)Find out about OpenNet and Singapore's all-fibre ultra-high-speed broadband network.