{"id":50967,"date":"2026-10-09T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=50967"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:37:29","slug":"start-planning-yota-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/10\/09\/start-planning-yota-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Start planning YOTA Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/yota\/yota-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Youngsters On The Air Month<\/strong><\/a>, providing young radio amateurs across the UK with the chance to operate using special event station GB26YOTA.<\/p>\n<p>The activity is a special IARU initiative that encourages young amateur radio operators to get on the air, make contacts around the world, and showcase amateur radio to other young people.<\/p>\n<p>As GB26YOTA is a special event call sign, you will need a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/full\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full<\/strong> <\/a>licensee on site to supervise the operators. If you\u2019re not a Full licensee, get together with others and have a group event.<\/p>\n<p>Clubs, schools, universities, youth groups and individuals can all apply to host the special event station and are encouraged to start planning now.<\/p>\n<p>You can find details of the application process, eligibility requirements, operating slots and call sign allocations on the <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/yota-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you don\u2019t miss out on being part of the team helping to make YOTA Month the best yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December is\u00a0Youngsters On The Air Month, providing young radio amateurs across the UK with the chance to operate using special event station GB26YOTA. The activity is a special IARU initiative that encourages young amateur radio operators to get on the air, make contacts around the world, and showcase amateur radio to other young people. As [&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-50967","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\/50967","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=50967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50972,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50967\/revisions\/50972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}