New YOTA Contest

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The Youngsters On The Air team has been working on a new YOTA Contest. The first of three sessions will be on the 22nd of May from 0800 to 1959UTC. There are eight different categories which also include special ones for youngsters under 25 years old. Covering the 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m bands, the competition will take place in CW and SSB modes.

YOTA Contest Rules - http://www.ham-yota.com/contest/

Recognition for Young Operators in Ham Radio Contests

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IARU Region 2 reports on a welcome move in North America to encourage young radio amateurs to participate in contests

The IARU Region 2 Executive Committee congratulates the National Contest Journal (NCJ) for recognizing young operators’ entries for the North American QSO Party (NAQP) CW and SSB contests in August 2021.

The 3830scores.com site will add a YOTA checkbox for their identification.

IARU R2 strongly believes that encouraging young operators to actively participate in various amateur radio activities is key for the future of amateur radio.

IARU R2 sponsors a regular bilingual English/Spanish session for young radio amateurs across the Americas. These sessions are an opportunity to share their experiences in the many possible amateur activities to attract new amateurs and increase the number of active young amateurs. This Group meets virtually twice per month and is open to all that wish to participate. For more information, please contact the IARU R2 Youth Liaison, Sterling Mann N0SSC, at youth@iaru-r2.org

IARU Region 2 - https://iaru-r2.org/


RSGB Contest Committee Agree to Accept Portable Entries

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The RSGB Contest Committee has announced it will accept portable entries in contests by stations in England from 29th March 2021

“As usual, when we approach a significant change in the COVID restrictions in England, we’ve started to receive some queries around how this will impact portable contesting.

We are continuing to apply the principle of simply requiring stations to strictly follow their local COVID restrictions and advisories. Therefore, from 29th March, as the ‘Stay at Home’ restriction is removed in England, we will once again accept portable entries from stations in England.

Portable multi-operator entries must normally be from the same household/bubble as typical portable locations, camper vans, cars and tents are considered indoors and indoor mixing of households is still not allowed.”
— RSGB Contest Committee