The 6th edition of Youngsters On The Air will take place in Austria. OeVSV, which will celebrate their 90 years anniversary, will be hosting next YOTA summer event. 75 Youngsters will travel to the Austrian Alps to enjoy a program with many new elements compared to previous years. To highlight some of the workshops: EME-activities and a SOTA activity in the Alps will be part of the program.
Very soon the application for participants of this next YOTA summer event will start.
Croatian DX Club, 9A1A, had pleasure to host the second event of IARU Region 1 Youngsters Contesters Programme. Young contesters came from Austria and Hungary and to them joined members of our youngsters 9A1RBZ contesting team.
Saturday morning was spent for introduction of location facilities. Their mentors Ivica- Braco,9A7R, and Nikola, 9A5W explained how 9A1A had built station and what is philosophy of equipment and antennas set-up. Heavy rain stopped longer stay outside to look in detail how antenna systems are installed.
Contest team was Flo (OE3FTA), Tomi (HA8RT), Mihaela (9A7MIM), Petar (9A5CPP), Domagoj (9A7CDZ), Eugen (9A5AEV) and Hungarian beginner Gabor. On Sunday joined them Mateo, 9A5CMM. Call 9A1RBZ was used. Equipment set up was as it is for Multi-Multi, with no inband addition, but with use of Multi-single contest rules. Unfortunately propagation conditions were very bad on 10 and 15M, those two bands were closed almost whole time. In addition heavy raining on Saturday/Sunday evening caused a lot of noise on 80M band.
But score achieved is promising to have top result between five non Scandinavians.
The whole contest they worked alone, supervision from 9A7R and 9A5W was almost no needed. Only to give advice regarding use of antenna systems, band openings and importance of asking multipliers for band exchange. As some of them know each other from YOTA events free time during contest was nicely used to talk and making jokes between themselves and enjoy in good food prepared by 9A7R.
Event impressions are excellent one. Immediately a question was on the table :
„ Which contest is next one ?“
As all of them like SSB mode, RTTY not so much, within 9A1A we decided to offer to them and other Region 1 youngsters participation in OK-OM DX Contest SSB. Event is on April 9/10th 2016. Contest has duration of 24 hours and it is world wide and it has Multi-Two category which can give more fun then Multi-Single in case of bigger number of participants.
Event was closed in Sunday afternoon hours on „Domestic way“ prepared grill in Velika Gorica, city 17 km far from contest location and which was starting point for come back to home for OE3FLA, HA8RT and Gabor. Lunch was nice occasion again to exchange contest impressions and their future plans in amateur radio.
Nikola Perčin , 9A5W
9A1A contest location is in village Kozjača, located about 40km SE from Zagreb or 20 km from Zagreb Airport. Station is constructed for Multi – Multi operation, and such installation permits MS, M2 or SO SB contest participation. Station set up includes to be on air in SO SB category in same time on all six bands.
There are 4 antenna towers, 2 times 36 meters, one 40m and one 26m height.
Shack has 62,5m2 including operating room, small bath room, kitchen and sleeping room.
The whole infrastructure is built in accordance to Croatian law. It passed „Technical Acceptance Test” and it has „Usage permit“ issued by appropriate authorities.
That means „No problem with any possible complaints from neighbours“ !
Antenna installation has 36 various antennas. Antenna systems are selected by antenna switchers, antenna rotation is in use in rare situations.
9A1A has two contest teams.
The first one is consisted by all club members having good contesting skills, and team includes our youngsters too. 9A1A call is in use.
Guest operators from all over the world are always welcome.
Second team is youngsters’ team.
They started in amateur radio as second grade students of Technical school Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb. Some of them are now on University, some of them are still school students.
In contests they are using call 9A1RBZ. They are in age between 16 and 20.
9A1RBZ is call for station installed in school. Croatian Amateur Radio sub law permits use of any call on other location with power limits given in licence of host station, and that is why they are using 9A1RBZ call.
9A1RBZ members have been world winners as team or single band operators in EA RTTY Contest 2014, SCC RTTY Championship 2014, YO DX HF Contest 2014. They have been on top list two times in UBA DX Contest SSB, years 2014 and 2015.
Claimed scores in SCC RTTY Championship 2015 shows to be world winner again.
From this year starting with SAC SSB Contest 9A1RBZ will participate in IARU Region 1 „Youth Contesting Program“ – YCP.
In SAC SSB 9A1RBZ team members are :
OE3FTA, Florian
HA8RT,Tomi
9A7MIM, Mihaela
9A7MSM, Marija
9A7CDZ, Domagoj
9A5CPP, Petar
Maybe some others will join them.
Youngsters from IARU R1 are welcome to participate in 9A1RBZ contest team.
Next contest planned is EA RTTY Contest 2016.
Actions will be coordinated with Lisa, PA2LS IARU R1 Youth WG Chairman.
view to contest location
Mihaela, 9A7MIM
The entire month of December several youngsters will become active with YOTA as suffix in the callsign. The idea for this is to show the amateur radio hobby to youth and to encourage youngsters to be active on the ham radio waves. Give a demonstration on a school or local club, gather together with your friends, grab a pizza and make some QSO’s or enjoy a great pile-up. Let us all show this great hobby to the world!
Feel free to make a QSO with the youngsters, they are happy to get some attention and exchange information. Licensed and unlicensed youth will be making QSO’s, be aware this could be their first radio contact ever and give them a chance to experience a possible new hobby.
Or apply for a YOTA callsign. To apply for this you need to follow some rules:
1- Follow the rules. Although this is a friendly activity, some rules are needed.
2- Have a callsign with YOTA in suffix. For example: PA6YOTA
3- Maximum of 2 callsigns per country If you are willing to make an exception, for example your country has several prefix districts, feel free to contact us with your request.
4- Applicants must ensure that the callsign is used primarily to get Youngsters On The Air (Youngsters are defined by IARU R1 as ‘under-26’)
5- We kindly ask to upload the ADIF log on a daily basis. At least all QSO’s must be send as ADIF file before 10 January 2016.
6- All QSO’s must be made in December 2015.
7- This is NOT a contest, we are trying to spread the word! Talk to people about what we do, not only quick 5/9’s. Admitting, a pile-up is always fun and off course we all love it
8- All participating callsigns must apply!
Deadline for registration will be closed on 20 November 2015.
*we are aware that it is not possible to have a callsign with YOTA in suffix in all countries. Is this also your case and would you like to take part, contact us.
*all applicants applying for a YOTA callsign should be a member of an IARU member society.
More info: http://www.ham-yota.com/december-yota-month/
Registration page: http://www.ham-yota.com/december-yota-month/register/
First IARU YCP program started Friday, when 14 HAM radio operators from five counties meet on Obosnik, at 4O3A Super-station, highest hill in Boka KotorskaBay, Montenegro. They setup a station for Multi Two, and had first on site presentation and introducing of station layout. IARU Youngster team is running last 6 hours of CQWW RTTY contest. They are fighting for first place in Multi Two category, supervised and instructed in fly by group of Slovenian experienced operators. Whatever score they will make, experience and knowledge they will take back home is invaluable.
Monday, 28th September all group will have daily trip to see Montenegro beauty, and will visit Montenegrin Agency for Telecommunication in Podgorica capital.
The first youth team taking part in IARU R1’s new Youth Contesting Program (YCP) is ready to start in the CQWW RTTY contest. All participants arrived at the station 4O3A in Montenegro. The youngsters are excited to be part in this contest from a so called “big gun station” which will be for most of them a new experience.
The next activity will be in two weeks from 9A1A during the SAC contest 10-11 October.
This young international team is active in the CQWW RTTY contest from 4O3A:
S57BM, Matej
IT9RGY, Gabriele
IZ6TSA, Nicolò
YU3VIP, Vasilije
E70RA , Alem
E75DCE, Dino
E79AA, Hasan
4O9IT, Dragisa
Marko, 4O9TT
Last Saturday the International Youth Meeting was held during HAM Radio Friedrichshafen. This event was hosted by German Youth Coordinator Annette, DL6SAK, and Youth WG Chair Lisa, PA2LS.
In this file you will find the slides of the following presentations:
Introduction of the new Youth Contest Program (YCP) of IARU R1 – PA2LS
YCP at 9A1A and youth projects of 9A1BRZ – 9A9A and 9A5W
Differences between German and US American Youth Communities – DO7KAY
In the end an interesting discussion took place, which was started by Kay DO7KAY, pointing out differences between German and US radio amateurs. Kay received for a year ARRL’s QST Magazine. With this he had the chance to dig deeper in the background of US radio amateurs.
After that, one of the main topics was the difficulty of obtaining an amateur radio license. This seems to be a problem in several countries. Depending on fees, minimum age, location of examination, level of exam questions and learning material. The discussion on this topic will continue in the near future. When it is hard to obtain a license, we will never get many more young radio amateurs.
We are inviting you to join the International Youth Meeting:
Date: Saturday 27-6-2015
Time: 10.00-11.30am
Place: Room Liechtenstein
With the following lectures:
Introduction of the new Youth Contest Program (YCP) of IARU R1 – PA2LS
YCP at 9A1A and youth projects of 9A1BRZ – 9A9A and 9A5W
Differences between German and US American Youth Communities – DO7KAY
DL6SAK and PA2LS
It’s already time for the 5th edition of the Youngsters On The Air summer event. In 2015 the youth radio camp will take place in Italy, organized by ARI (Associazione Radioamatori Italiani)
In this week teams of young radio amateurs from several countries will be participating in all kind of amateur radio activities. Think about workshops, contesting and ARDF, we will try to show many aspects of the radio hobby. Off course you will also get the chance to learn about other cultures, in the famous intercultural evening you will get the chance to try food and drinks from all participating countries. As we go to Italy, we will also show you the country and Italian traditions.
This is just a little bit about what we are going to do in this event. It will be a great experience for all participants which they will never forget. To get a better feeling about this, have a look at the gallery from previous events.
When: 18-25 July 2015
Participants: each IARU member society is invited to take part with a team. A team consist of maximum 5 persons, 4 Persons with the age 15-25 years and one person is dedicated as team leader.
Location: Marina di Massa, Tuscany
Fees: travel costs to Pisa airport and €25 per participant
All other costs (accomodation, food, activities) will be covered, main funder of the event is IARU R1.
If your member society is interested to participate, please respond to italy@ham-yota.com by 27 January 2015 with sending in this Application form YOTA2015. There is a limit of 75 participants. Make sure you will apply in time. We will announce the participating countries shortly after the deadline.
For any questions, please contact italy@ham-yota.com
After having last year the first edition of December YOTA month! it’s time for a new one.
During the whole month of December several countries will become active with YOTA as suffix in the callsign. The idea for this is to break the ice for some youngsters and take the microphone in the hand. As seen over the years the YOTA-group is growing fast and every week more youngsters are asking to participate. Let us all make YOTA popular in HAM radio and let us all help to put youngsters on the HAM radio train!
Would you like to participate? Send an e-mail to december(@)ham-yota.com Register at least before 24 November.
The rules are simple:
1- Follow the rules 🙂 Although this is a friendly activity, some rules are needed.
2- Have a callsign with YOTA in suffix. For example: PA6YOTA
3- Maximum of 2 callsigns per country
4- Applicants must ensure that the callsign is used primarily to put Youngsters On The Air (Youngsters are defined by IARU R1 as ‘under-26’)
5- All QSO’s must be logged and send as ADIF file before 10 January
6- Make sure the callsign is regularly on air, as there are people searching for it
7- All QSO’s must be made in December 2014.
8- This is NOT a contest, we are trying to spread the word! Talk to people about what we do, not only quick 5/9’s. Admitting, a pile-up is always fun and off course we all love it J
Detailed information about the award, QSL handling and rules are coming soon in a bulletin.
* December YOTA month! is not limited to European countries only. This could be the first worldwide YOTA event!
73’s and hope to hear from you!
Tommy ON2TD and Lisa PA2LS,
on behalf of Youngsters On The Air-team.
