ACTIVITIES DURING AND AFTER QUARANTINE

• Annual Lithuanian Cup contest took place just as it normally would. Although there were a lot more youngsters, compared to previous years, that worked on-site.
• More hams finished their QO-100 set-ups and can now do QSOs.
• New DMR hotspot in city Šiauliai that has many VHF/UHF/SHF loving radio amateurs.
• Several groups of radio amateurs expressed their desire to organize local mini hamfests this summer.
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• Kaunas Technology University radio club received new premises to expand and deploy new antennas.
• New, more powerful DMR hotspot has been deployed in Vilnius to increase the coverage and more users have joined.
• New 70cm repeater that was donated, has been installed in Vilnius.
• Even more students joined the Kaunas Technology University radio club
• New 2m WebSDR receiver in Vilnius
• Station operation during december YOTA month

PLANS FOR NEXT 2 MONTHS

1. Move Kaunas Technology University radio club to new premises.
2. Finnish making the DMR hotspot for Kaunas by increasing TX power and providing better antennas.
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• ●  Lukas LY1LB and Haroldas LY5IM visited Vilnius Radvilų gymnasium and spoke about the activities of ham radio and how to become a radio amateur. Presentation about YOTA activities was also made, alongside the project of ARISS contact. The students had a hands on experience with a HF radio which was set up in the classroom. Photos can be found on Lithuanian amateur radio society facebook page. [1].
• ●  Vilnius University club is continuing to grow. As of last month we have a new club member – Lukas LY1PG. The club will begin more HF operations as a new antenna was obtained – we have bought a new 3 element tri-bander yagi for 20/15/10m.
• ●  An animated video about Amateur Radio hobby was released in Lithuanian on one of the most known educational channels in Lithuania [2].
• ●  Amateur Radio Direction Finding has been regularly cultivated with at least one activity a week, every month. All of these ARDF meetings/trainings have been public and announced to a wide audience, frequently bringing new people who might eventually get in the hobby themselves.
• ●  Simonas Kareiva has presented the amateur radio hobby to a large audience on prime-time evening hours of a major radio station “Radiocentras” Read more

• Haroldas LY5IM handles LKB project’s (our High-Altitude Baloon project) public relations:

• Development of a new website and merchandise line (will go up in the next few days);
• Revival of the Facebook feed on LKB activities;

Since our last report we are glad to expand more on LKB’s goals and accomplishments:

Our goal is to launch the first lithuanian-made circumnavigating high altitude balloon.

LKB project is progressing well:

• Payload weight is being successfully reduced (now below 40g., still awaiting custom circuit board and optimising energy usage for a smaller quantity of batteries);  Read more