{"id":51225,"date":"2026-10-30T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=51225"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:50:11","slug":"register-your-school-university-or-youth-group-for-yota-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/10\/30\/register-your-school-university-or-youth-group-for-yota-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Register your school, university or youth group for YOTA Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/youth\/school-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>school, college<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/youth\/university-corner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>university<\/strong> <\/a>amateur radio club? Or maybe you are part of a Scout, Girlguiding or Cadet group and would like to host an amateur radio activity?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/yota\/yota-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Youngsters On The Air Month<\/strong><\/a> starts in December and the RSGB is looking for groups to get involved and host special event station GB26YOTA.<\/p>\n<p>This annual campaign is a fantastic opportunity to get as many young operators on the air as possible and to show them how fun and educational amateur radio can be.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the magic of making your first QSO? Let\u2019s share that experience with as many young people as possible and show them what amateur radio has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>A requirement of special event stations is that you 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.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not a Full licensee, you could team up with another group for the event. Alternatively, you could contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/services\/clubfinder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>local amateur radio club<\/strong><\/a> and see if its members can come and support you.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about YOTA Month, including how to register as host, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/yota-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you part of a school, college or university amateur radio club? Or maybe you are part of a Scout, Girlguiding or Cadet group and would like to host an amateur radio activity? Youngsters On The Air Month starts in December and the RSGB is looking for groups to get involved and host special event [&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-51225","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\/51225","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=51225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51268,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51225\/revisions\/51268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}