In this edition of Train the Trainer, our aim was to get ideas for all the societies to use. Therefore the main questions were made in the way that the societies answering them would give as many ideas as possible, so other societies could benefit from them and make their own activities! Answering in this particular report are by representative(s) of team Lithuania

Read team Lithuania’s TTT 2/2021

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