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April 21, 2022
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News: YOTA Japan

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Riku Suda (JR2KHB) – Representative Director, YOTA Japan

“On the 1st of March this year, YOTA Japan was officially incorporated, and we reestablished  “Youngsters on the Air Japan” as a non-profitable association which is called, in terms of Japanese law, a general incorporated association.

Along with that, we introduce the membership system and committees to clarify that youngsters are the center of our activities.

By the incorporation, the membership system and committees, we will create more fields where our youngsters can be active, and will expand the activities.”

 

Source: YOTA Japan

July 2, 2021
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First ever YOTA Camp in New Zealand

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Press Release
by YOTA Team New Zealand

On the 27th and 28th of February YOTA-NZ being the Youth On The Air branch of Radio Amateurs New Zealand (RANZ) held its very first youth camp. This coincided with the Jock White Field Day which is the largest radio competition in New Zealand. The event runs from Saturday 1500-2400 NZDT until Sunday 0600-1500 NZDT.

The YOTA event was held at the Kaitoke regional (public) park which is a water catchment reserve for the Wellington Regional Council. The site was chosen because it was relatively high, in the geographical center of NZ and about 40km away from the capital city of Wellington. It is a low noise environment.

The camp site was set on Friday to secure a favourable transmitting position. Friday night was spent talking to European stations and trying out old military army 1940’s radios (ZC1’s) on the SPAM net, trying out several digital modes on 2m and on experimenting with HF QRP NVIS. It was really fantastic watching and helping young radio operators manage a traffic jam for the first time when the bands opened to Europe.

We had 26 YOTA members turn up and help. There was a relatively constant stream of visitors; other local ham radio operators; campers on the site and some members from from Deer Stalkers NZ who turned up to discuss not only what we were doing, but how they can become licensed operators. We had several YOTA members dip their toes into contesting – youth who had never been on the air before. Other stations constantly thanked and congratulated us for running a youth event in NZ. We had more than a healthy amount of really delicious food on hand and the coffee pot was kept full all weekend. We were teaching one young lady not only radio operational procedures but to drive an old army truck around camp. The E-bikes were constantly in use and because the weather was so hot (32C) people were popping over to the river for a quick cool down dip all weekend. Fantastic meals for the event were mostly provided by donation; access to the site was granted from the Wellington Regional Council; use of Branch 11 (ZL2AA) club call sign was provided by the Gisborne Amateur Radio Club Inc. The remainder of the event was sponsored internally from YOTANZ members via the beg, borrow and steal method of sponsorship.

 

The team has produced a little recap video, feel free to watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-7U-uF3HM
August 7, 2020
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YOTA Oceania – ZL6YOTA Jock White Memorial Field Day Youth Event 2021

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We recently received a quote from Team YOTA Oceania lead Benjamin (ZL2BCI) in IARU Region 3 about their future plans.

He says: “YOTA Oceania is looking to run a field day event next year in Wellington, at the Kaitoke camping ground for the Jock White Memorial Field Day. This annual contest is named to honor Jock White, ZL2GX a former NZART Contest and Awards Manager. Our aim is to establish effective temporary HF radio stations, to work as many other New Zealand stations as possible, and to learn to operate in less than optimal band conditions. We are also planning on trying to make contact with some of our Australian counterparts during the weekend. The callsigns we will be operating under will either ZL2YOTA or ZL6YOTA. Hope to catch you on the air on the 27-28th of February 2021.”

We wish them good luck with their efforts and hope to get them down our logs!

 

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