{"id":35859,"date":"2024-11-22T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=35859"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:44:58","slug":"encourage-youngsters-on-the-air-during-yota-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2024\/11\/22\/encourage-youngsters-on-the-air-during-yota-month\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA Month: encourage youngsters on the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/yota\/yota-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Youngsters on the Air Month<\/strong><\/a> begins one week today.<\/p>\n<p>Call sign GB24YOTA will be active for the duration of the month, hosted by a range of groups, clubs and individuals. <a href=\"https:\/\/2ndmarlborough.wiltshirescouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marlborough Scout Group<\/strong><\/a> will be the first team of youngsters to operate. They will be on the air before midday on Sunday 1 December, and then again after 6pm on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Also operating the special call sign next Sunday will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g6uw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge University Wireless Society<\/strong><\/a>. They will be hosting the call sign between 12pm and 6pm. Remember to listen out and have a QSO with a young radio amateur on the air.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to get involved, you\u2019ve still got time. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/GB24YOTA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>QRZ.com and search for GB24YOTA<\/strong><\/a> to check availability and then email Jamie, M0SDV at <strong>yota.month@rsgb.org.uk<\/strong> to register your interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters on the Air Month begins one week today. Call sign GB24YOTA will be active for the duration of the month, hosted by a range of groups, clubs and individuals. Marlborough Scout Group will be the first team of youngsters to operate. They will be on the air before midday on Sunday 1 December, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35859","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}