{"id":30251,"date":"2022-08-10T17:11:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=30251"},"modified":"2022-08-11T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:52:53","slug":"yota-croatia-2022-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/yota-2022\/2022\/08\/10\/yota-croatia-2022-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA Croatia 2022 &#8211; Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>What did you get up to on Day 4?<\/h4>\n<p>We started the morning with a slot to operate the special event station, during which Dan made some CW contacts, including one with Japan. Afterwards we started programming our &#8220;Wabbit&#8221; ARDF transmitter. We were introduced to using the Arduino IDE to control the programmable clock chip found on our transmitters, and most participants had their radio transmitting a call sign in CW by the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch we had a fascinating talk on carbon neutral operation, delving deep into the topic of using solar panels, wind turbines and batteries to take amateur radio stations off-grid. Next was an activity about the International Space Station, where we were split up into small groups and were asked to create a small presentation of interesting facts about the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Our last activity of the day was Train-the-Trainer, where we had presentations from the Italian and Croatian teams on activities they have been doing in their home countries to encourage young people into amateur radio.<\/p>\n<h4>What did you learn that you didn\u2019t already know?<\/h4>\n<p>We learned a great deal about the intricacies of using solar panels and batteries to power an amateur radio station.<\/p>\n<h4>What are you looking forward to next?<\/h4>\n<p>Tomorrow we have an early start to visit the capital city of Zagreb and set up a Summits On The Air (SOTA) station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan operating CW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30256\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/08\/Dan-operating-CW-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"YOTA team member Dan operating CW outside\" width=\"356\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/08\/Dan-operating-CW-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/08\/Dan-operating-CW-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2022\/08\/Dan-operating-CW.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did you get up to on Day 4? We started the morning with a slot to operate the special event station, during which Dan made some CW contacts, including one with Japan. Afterwards we started programming our &#8220;Wabbit&#8221; ARDF transmitter. We were introduced to using the Arduino IDE to control the programmable clock chip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yota-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251","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\/20373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}