While having dinner on our last evening at the Hamvention we had the chance to chat with famous logging software developer Tom (N1MM). It was great to get a deeper look at what he and his team are doing to provide us with proper software!
Maybe we will have some more time to talk about it at the next American YOTA event?
We had a chance to visit the IARU booth in Dayton for a chat with Tim (VE6SH), Ole (LA2RR) and Dave (K1ZZ).
They handed out YOTA flyers and giveaways to the visitors and showed great interest in youth activities.
Within the next weeks all necessary preperations will start to make a YOTA camp in Region 2 happen!
Great to see that IARU is pushing for more and more youth related topics all over the world and is showing outstanding support.
Thanks to Tim (K3LR) and everyone around him for the invitation to the annually contest dinner at Crown Plaza.
We had the chance to not only catch up with contest related activities in Region 2 but to give a short introduction about YOTA and Youth Contesting Program.
We got tremendous feedback from the audience.
K3LR promised us his support and will host an upcoming YCP event in near future!
We hope many others will join his footsteps soon 
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Great news! We have finally had the honour to meet Rich (W2VU) from CQ Magazine! He was very excited to hear about our upcoming events. CQ Magazine will regularly publish articles about Youngsters On The Air soon.
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Our youth team over in Dayton had the pleasure to talk to Faith Hannah (AE4FH) today. She is very excited and interested in attending YOTA camp in South Africa this August as IARU Region 2 team. She wishes that there will be something similar in America in the near future!
We had a great get together with IARU president Tim (VE6SH) and Reinaldo (YV5AM) president of IARU Region 2. They gave us very positive feedback on our youh activities. Let’s all hope we will see a YOTA camp in this region in the near future.😜
RFinder goes Youth – after an invitation to the DMR BBQ dinner they were talking a lot about youth activities.
Bob (W2CYK) also announced that he will support future YOTA activities with his quality products … we are looking forward
Our YOTA Dayton staff also met up with Stefano Messi, the president of Messi & Paoloni. We would like to thank them for their great annual support as well. Once more they are providing high quality coaxial cables for the upcoming YOTA camp this year in South Africa.
Flo (OE3FTA), Vice Chair Youth WG IARU R1, and Koos (ZR6KF), organizer of the upcoming YOTA summer camp 2018 in South Africa, welcomed Ward (N0AX) the president of YASME Foundation at our YOTA booth yesterday. They thanked him and the foundation for their generous support of YOTA. Also a big thanks for making this trip to Dayton happen.
On the weekend around 12th of May the annual CQ Mir International Contest took place. Together with a group of youngsters from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany and Austria I had the chance to take part from a Top-Gun station in Europe. I met this group only thanks to an initiative from IARU Region 1 Youth-Group.
For some years, Youngsters On The Air have given the opportunity to compete in an ordinary station without any qualifications and prior knowledge. Of course, I did not miss this opportunity! Part of the YCP-Team were Philipp (DK6SP) and Flo (OE3FTA). We met on Friday afternoon in the new club station of the ÖVSV in Vienna. From there we drove together to Croatia. After a few hours of driving, we were warmly welcomed by the team around 9A1A near Zagreb. Another youngster from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emin (E71CQ) and some young people from the area around were already on site. We started with the most important thing: the food. After a good portion of Spaghetti we where ready to go on. It was time to get to know the station. My first job now was to get at least 300 Americans into my log. So called “Warmeup”. With such a setup, 4 towers with a height of 45 meters each, equipped with uncountable stacked monoband antennas, this task was done relatively quickly. So I was granted a few hours sleep. In the morning it was setup time. There were six stations to configure and prepare for the competition. The team had managed incredible 2 million points last year, and claiming first place worldwide. This position, No 1 World, had to be defended this year.
As a multi-single Station, multiple operator but only one signal on the bands at any time, we have been active on three bands simultaneously with an interlocking system. 24 hours mixed mode CW and SSB stood in front of us. After a hard night and a short power outage last year’s result unfortunately remained untouchable. Thanks to the amazing team and incredible station setup we achieved solid 2100 QSO`s and this resulted in 1.44 million points. A big thank you to the croatian radio amateurs whom I was allowed to support for a weekend! In my opinion, the Youth Contesting Program of IARU Region 1 was a great success. I am looking forward to next year!
73 de OE3BVB, Benjamin
(YCP member @9A1A 2018)
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