February 28, 2016
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News update from YOTA 2016 Austria

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As you know this year’s YOTA event will take place in Austria.

We had so many registrations for the event that, because of the accommodation and also the good organization and flexibility, we are able to host the event for not just 75 but around 110 youngsters from all over Region 1. We’d like to show our gratitude towards IARU for providing us with additional funds to make this all possible!
Furthermore we are planning to invite 2 youngsters from each other region to make the event even more international and spread the YOTA/ham spirit even further.

Organization is going full steam ahead and preparations are being made to make it an unforgettable experience for all of you.
The official YOTA 2016 Austria logo can be found in our album!
If you’re looking for some YOTA Austria merchandising, have a look here!

More information coming soon!
See you in Wagrain, your Yota-Austria Team!

November 30, 2015
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38 stations taking part in YOTA December month

By | YOTA Month 2015 | One Comment

YOTA December month is about to start. 38 YOTA callsigns in total will be active from schools, scoutings or just used by young radio amateurs under the age of 26 years. Try to make a QSO with the youngsters, be aware that some of them are new to the radio hobby, while others are more experienced. Goal is to show this amazing radio amateur hobby to youth and to have more “youngsters on the air”.
The YOTA stations will be active throughout the entire month of December. All info about the stations is available on this page.

Award:
There is a special award available for working YOTA stations.
In total there can be 4 awards achieved:
Bronze: worked 5 YOTA stations
Silver: worked 10 YOTA stations
Gold: worked 15 YOTA stations
Platinum: worked 25 YOTA stations
Awards can be requested through this link.

November 30, 2015
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YOTA Logos

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Hey All!

Have you ever wanted to express your feelings for YOTA? Mention us on your QRZ.com page, facebook page or whatever floats your boat? Now you can! Feel free to use these logos online or on social media. Oh, don’t forget to mention our website!

Click here to view the album!

Best 73′
Yentel – ON3YH

November 13, 2015
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Call for applications YOTA 2016‏ Austria

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The 6th edition of Youngsters On The Air will take place in Austria. OeVSV (Österreichischer Versuchssenderverband), which will celebrate their 90 years anniversary, will be hosting next YOTA summer event. 75 Youngsters will be invited to travel to the Austrian Alps to enjoy a program with many new elements compared to previous years.

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: 16-23 July 2016

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.
* All participants, including team leaders, should take part in the entire program.
* We ask member societies to select motivated participants
Team leaders:
* Younger team leaders are preferred (age 18-30 years)
* A team leader should be in a good health condition, which means that they can take part in the entire program and take care of their team members.            

Location: Wagrain, south of Salzburg (OE2)

Fees: travel costs to Salzburg airport or Wagrain 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 austria@ham-yota.com by 31 December 2015 by sending in the application form. 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 austria@ham-yota.com

November 8, 2015
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Announcement ES5TV team

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The next YCP activity will take place during the ARI International DX contest in May 2016.
Besided the young Estionians, 6 young international radio amateurs will get the oppertunity to take part from ES5TV’s station.

The lucky ones who are part of team:

Dagmawit Solomon ET3AA
Tsegaye Atsbeha KB3WWJ (Ethiopia)
Peter Lundberg SA2BLV
Hendrik Teuber DD5HT
Teodora Getsova LZ2CWW
Fiodor de Palma IZ7YBG

 

November 1, 2015
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US callsigns

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At YOTA camp 2015 in Italy, besides youngsters socializing with one another and exchanging ideas as well as experience, there was one more and definitely notable event that took place. After having prepared for and signed up for the American license exam, youngsters were allowed to take it in the camp and have their own US callsings issued. After some waiting that most of the participants were impatiently waiting to be over so that they can enjoy their brand new callsigns, the latter have finally been published and are presented hereby:

308 AC2RI Varro, Tamas Bence
309 AL5O Gardin, Petter
310 KD2JOJ Hutchinson Mr, Adam
311 KL4EE Giardin, Magnus
312 KD2JOI Evans, Richard J
313 KD2JOH McGraw, Daniel
314 KD2JOG Koole, Dennis
315 KD2JOF Veselinovic, Dusko
316 KD2JOD Leenders, Lisa
317 KD2JOC Hollebeke, Yentel
318 KD2JOB Perez Perez, Andres
319 KD2JOA Degrande, Tommy
320 KD2JNZ Maes, Pieter
321 KD2JNY DeVries, Pieter Cornelis
322 KD2JNX Glonti, Nikoloz
323 KD2JNW Schebesta Jr, Monty
KD2JTM McNamara, Ger

More information is available on www.qrz.com

October 27, 2015
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YOTA 2016 will take place in Austria!

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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.

October 13, 2015
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9A1RBZ: YCP in SAC SSB CONTEST

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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

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