{"id":18071,"date":"2017-08-11T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2017-08-11T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:13:41","slug":"yota-2017-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/08\/11\/yota-2017-wraps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA 2017 wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees the end of a fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/yota-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YOTA 2017 week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been action-packed and a great success.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty young radio amateurs from 26 countries have enjoyed trying out new aspects of amateur radio as well as making new friends.<\/p>\n<p>After a tense start at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b3wPGH3VFPQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISS contact on Tuesday<\/a>, twelve young radio amateurs were able to put their questions to astronaut Paolo Nespoli, IZ0JPA.<\/p>\n<p>It was truly a night to remember for all the participants, every one present at the YOTA event itself, plus those watching from around the world via the <a href=\"http:\/\/batc.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BATC<\/a> internet video stream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IARU Region 1<\/a> President Don Beattie, G3BJ and Hilary Claytonsmith, G4JKS visited the YOTA camp and were impressed by the skills and enthusiasm shown by the YOTA teams.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a snapshot of the huge range of activities that have been happening via the YOTA 2017 Daily Diaries at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/yota-dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rsgb.org\/yota-dd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees the end of a fabulous YOTA 2017 week. It has been action-packed and a great success. Eighty young radio amateurs from 26 countries have enjoyed trying out new aspects of amateur radio as well as making new friends. After a tense start at the ISS contact on Tuesday, twelve young radio amateurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-yota-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071","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=18071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}