The RSGB was proud to host YOTA 2017 at Gilwell Park in August

They welcomed 80 young people under the age of 26 from 27 countries—from all over IARU Region 1 as well as Japan—who represented their national amateur radio societies at the event.

This video is an overview of the week, celebrating the wide range of amateur radio and intercultural activities the youngsters took part in.

Through these they were able to build relationships with like-minded people from other countries and develop international friendships through amateur radio—and have a lot of fun!

The final Daily Diary is now online and shows a summary of YOTA 2017 by numbers – just a small selection of the highlights of the week.

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We’ve just released a “Daily Diaries – YOTA Key Special” showing RSGB President Nick Henwood, G3RWF operating with the YOTA Key and chatting about the event.

Wednesday’s YOTA 2017 Daily Diary is now on our website. There was lots of activity in the shack on GB17YOTA and we reached the 7,000 QSO mark! We also had the first trans-Atlantic contact on 6 meters by the YOTA team using the new FT8 digital mode…
www.rsgb.org/yota-dd

Our YOTA 2017 Daily Diary from yesterday is finally available. It has taken longer to create because it focuses on the ISS contact (contacts!) and is three times the length of our usual Daily Diaries – definitely worth a watch as there are some great moments of humour amongst the tension and excitement: www.rsgb.org/yota-dd

Monday’s Daily Diary is now online. Action yesterday includes a busy GB17YOTA, excited youngsters visiting London for the first time and have fun doing a challenging ARDF course. These diaries are just a tiny snapshot of all the things happening here, so take a look: www.rsgb.org/yota-dd