Our latest vlog introduces the second member of the UK YOTA 2017 team – Jonathan Sawyer, 2E0UAR is 23 and belongs to the Reading and District Amateur Radio Club.
With under six weeks to go until the event the countdown has begun!
What question would you ask an astronaut?
YOTA teams across the world have been invited to submit questions for the planned contact with the International Space Station during YOTA 2017.
Linking with the theme of the amateur radio event, questions should focus on communications – which can include amateur radio, cell phones, data links, satellites, etc. YOTA team members have been asked to try and think of questions no-one else has asked before!
We won’t know when the ISS contact will take place until one week before the event, but the plan is to have it streamed live over the internet so people everywhere will be able to watch the build up and the QSO.
George Dobbs, G3RJV (Hon Secretary) and Graham Firth, G3MFJ (Hon Treasurer) explain why the GQRP Club is delighted to be a Super Supporter of YOTA 2017. Both are long-standing radio amateurs and very well-known in the radio amateur community. Graham says “We feel strongly about encouraging the younger folk to the hobby – and we support it when we can.” Great to see people of all ages supporting this youth event and even trying out a new form of communication to do so!
Other YOTA vlogs can be found here: http://rsgb.org/main/about-us/yota-2017/watch-our-vlogs/
Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD has confirmed that the plans are in place for an ARISS contact during YOTA 2017 week in August. He will be visiting Gilwell Park soon as part of the preparations and the ARISS team from the Principia mission will be available to run the contact in August.
Teams from across the world are getting ready to fly to the UK to take part in YOTA 2017. The team travelling the furthest is from Japan – we’re looking forward to welcoming Seiya Kato, JE1XUZ and Riku Suda, JR2KHB.
Have you seen the YOTA 2017 vlogs? Find out more about the people involved in making this event happen, hear what the young UK radio amateurs are looking forward to and see a little of Gilwell Park and the facilities there…
It’s time to start the WSPR contest with the kits we built at YOTA. We challenge all teams to take part with their kit.
Next to this we make a separate category for everyone without a kit, since there was only 1 kit per team available.
Contest rules
General:
The contact with the longest distance wins the contest.
When:
1200UTC Wednesday 10 August to 1200UTC Tuesday 16 August 2016
Categories:
a. use the WSPR Raspberry Pi kit as built during YOTA Austria
b. use any equipment you want, max. powder 5 Watts.
Log:
Use the Excell example in the attachment to make your log. You can request the results using this database: http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/spots
Write in the log only the 10 contacts with the furthest distance (in km).
Save the log with your callsign as title.
Send in your log latest on 20 August to austria(@)ham-yota.com
Results:
The 10 contacts with the furthest distance (in km) will be divided by 10. The person with the highest number will win the contest.
The last day..
An overview of all newsflash videos can be found at: YOTA 2016 Vimeo Channel
Another hot day in Austria with visits to the mountains.
An overview of all newsflash videos can be found at:YOTA 2016 Vimeo Channel
Throughout Wednesday we participated in two workshops: Digital Voice & EMCOM.
An overview of all newsflash videos can be found at: YOTA 2016 Vimeo Channel
