{"id":16456,"date":"2016-12-02T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2016-12-02T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:40:53","slug":"sandringham-kicks-off-gb16yota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2016\/12\/02\/sandringham-kicks-off-gb16yota\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandringham kicks off GB16YOTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16457 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-01.png\" alt=\"sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-01\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-01.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-01-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>Sandringham School in St Albans activated the special callsign GB16YOTA for the first time on the first of December.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 students visited the station and a number of young licensees operated during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Although conditions were poor and copy was difficult in many cases, they made 97 contacts in 24 countries across the school day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16458 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-02.png\" alt=\"sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-02\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-02.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-02-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>Support was provided by members of Verulam ARC.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of GB16YOTA is to introduce and promote amateur radio to young people.<\/p>\n<p>It will be operated from a variety of clubs and organisations throughout December.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 4 December Worcester ARC has the call sign.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16459 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-03.png\" alt=\"sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-03\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-03.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/12\/sandringham-school-yota-event-2016-03-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>On Monday to Thursday it\u2019s operated by Aberystwyth and District ARS, moving to Hilderstone Radio and Electronics Club on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Next Saturday it\u2019s at Silcoates, and CDXC will take up the call sign on Sunday the 11th.<\/p>\n<p>If you hear GB16YOTA on the air please give them a call, as you might well be giving a young person their first-ever taste of amateur radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandringham School in St Albans activated the special callsign GB16YOTA for the first time on the first of December. Over 100 students visited the station and a number of young licensees operated during the event. Although conditions were poor and copy was difficult in many cases, they made 97 contacts in 24 countries across the [&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-16456","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\/16456","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=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}