{"id":41903,"date":"2025-08-21T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=41903"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:37:09","slug":"yota-paris-2025-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/updates-from-yota-paris-2025\/2025\/08\/21\/yota-paris-2025-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA Paris 2025 \u2013 Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Getting on the air &#8211; written by Leon, 2E0VUF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-41904 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie, M7IJG soldering\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859-884x1024.jpg 884w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859-768x890.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859-1326x1536.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004870-scaled-e1755768288859.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>Today was another busy day for the group, with a focus on operating and building. We constructed two kits today, both CW related. Firstly, the Winkeyer CW keyer, which was a PCB construction kit. Secondly, a CW paddle which was a 3D printed kit that we assembled and tested. Building kits together was a great experience and one I&#8217;d love to do more.<\/p>\n<p>We also had two presentations today, one about DXpeditions, with a focus on when things don&#8217;t go to plan, and the other about POTA and how to activate parks successfully.<\/p>\n<p>In the late afternoon and evening we got the UK team on the air, with everyone working on the HF bands. A special mention to Sophie, M7IJG and Emily, M7HPU who had some of their first HF QSOs, using the 40m band with Sam, M0UEL on hand to help them. Both did really well and got the hang of operating quickly, speaking to people from all over Europe. We had QSOs with radio amateurs from Italy, France and Spain to name a few. I also had some success on the 80m band, contacting a lot of German stations.<\/p>\n<p>Helping each other out and making QSOs is such a rewarding opportunity, and a massive thank you to all of the UK radio amateurs who called in and said hello!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41908 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Sam helping Sophie and Emily with their first HF QSOs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004918-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41916 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie operating\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/08\/1000004898-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting on the air &#8211; written by Leon, 2E0VUF Today was another busy day for the group, with a focus on operating and building. We constructed two kits today, both CW related. Firstly, the Winkeyer CW keyer, which was a PCB construction kit. Secondly, a CW paddle which was a 3D printed kit that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-from-yota-paris-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903","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=41903"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41917,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions\/41917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}