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.
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
Thanks to Ward, N0AX, an article about Youngsters On The Air was published in the december edition of QST, the monthly journal of the ARRL.
The full article can be downloaded here.
Best 73′
The YOTA-team
Disclaimer: all rights go to the ARRL, QST and the author, N0AX. This article was published with their permission.
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