{"id":2313,"date":"2021-04-09T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2021-04-09T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:19:43","slug":"yota-announces-new-three-times-a-year-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/09\/yota-announces-new-three-times-a-year-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA Announces New Three-Times-a-Year Contest…."},"content":{"rendered":"
YOTA Announces New Three-Times-a-Year Contest<\/div>\n

“Team YOTA” of Youngsters on the Air in IARU Region 1 has announced it will sponsor a new contest, the\u00a0YOTA Contest<\/a>. Open to all radio amateurs, it takes place three times a year and runs for just 12 hours. YOTA said the aim is to boost on-the-air activity by younger radio amateurs and to support YOTA. The contest will take place on\u00a0\"\"different 12-hour windows on three Saturdays.<\/p>\n

The opening event will be on May 22, 0800 – 1959 UTC. The other two in 2021 will be July 17, 1000 – 2159 UTC, and December 30, 1200 – 2359 UTC.<\/p>\n

YOTA has established eight different operating categories, which include sub-categories for operators age 25 and younger, but operators of all ages may participate. Covering 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters, the allowable modes will be CW and SSB.<\/p>\n

The contest exchange will be the age of the participating operator. Different ages serve as score multipliers during the contest. Stations may work the same station once per band mode.<\/p>\n

Contacts between the station’s own continent are worth 1 point, while working DX is worth 3 points. The most points will be achieved by working the youngest operators. “The younger the operator, the more points one will get for the QSO,” YOTA said.<\/p>\n

The IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group is working with Hungary’s IARU member-society MRASZ, the Hungarian Amateur Radio Society. MRASZ is providing a contest log robot, among other things.<\/p>\n

Submit<\/a>\u00a0Cabrillo logs only. Contest winners will be announced once logs received have been checked in the various categories. Winners will be awarded with a YOTA Contest plaque.<\/p>\n

The contest committee consists of the IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group: Philipp, DK6SP, chair; Markus, DL8GM, vice chair, and members Csaba, HA6PX, and Tomi, HA8RT.<\/p>\n

Contact<\/a>\u00a0the YOTA Contest Committee with any questions or further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YOTA Announces New Three-Times-a-Year Contest “Team YOTA” of Youngsters on the Air in IARU Region 1 has announced it will sponsor a new contest, the\u00a0YOTA Contest. Open to all radio amateurs, it takes place three times a year and runs Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}