{"id":16423,"date":"2016-11-25T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=16423"},"modified":"2016-11-25T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:42:56","slug":"youngsters-gb16yota-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2016\/11\/25\/youngsters-gb16yota-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngsters\u2019 GB16YOTA on the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every December, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IARU<\/a> organises Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) month, which is a month-long activity specifically aimed at getting young people operating amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a contest but there is an award to chase.<\/p>\n<p>The UK station, GB16YOTA, will be put on the air by Sandringham School ARC on 1 December, Sidmouth ARS on 2 December, and by Durham and District ARS on the 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Worcester RAA will be operating the call sign on the 4th.<\/p>\n<p>If young amateurs cannot get to these stations to take part, they can still join in by working as many YOTA stations as they can during December.<\/p>\n<p>Last year about 30 countries took part and there is an IARU award for working the YOTA special event stations.<\/p>\n<p>Further details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ham-yota.com\/december-yota-month\" target=\"_blank\">ham-yota.com\/december-yota-month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every December, the IARU organises Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) month, which is a month-long activity specifically aimed at getting young people operating amateur radio. It is not a contest but there is an award to chase. The UK station, GB16YOTA, will be put on the air by Sandringham School ARC on 1 December, Sidmouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}