YOTA Contest Second Leg

The Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) Contest is open to all radio amateurs and comprises three 12-hour sessions with the aim to boost on-the-air activity by younger radio amateurs and to support Youngsters On The Air.

The second leg is on 18th July 2021 from 1000 to 2159UTC.

In the first leg more than 100 entries were from contesters between seven and 25 years old.

YOTA website - http://ham-yota.com/

IARU HF Championships 2021

The IARU HF Championships takes place from 12:00 UTC on Saturday 10 July and ends at 11:59 UTC on Sunday 11 July 2021 with CW and phone activity on 160 to 10 metres with the aim to contact as many other amateurs, especially IARU Member Society HQ stations, around the world as possible.

The South African Radio League report that ZS9HQ needs operators for the contest, but you can operate from your own station using the HQ call sign.

If you can operate that weekend, send your details to contest@sarl.org.za and hfmanager@sarl.org.za.

FMH Portable Operations Challenge 2021, Parallel Regional or Local Group Competitions

To increase participation in the FMH Portable Operations Challenge 2021, parallel regional or local group competitions based on how entrants are positioned in the final results of the POC are being encouraged by Ed Durrant DD5LP.

Those who would like to do this for their group or region, should send an email to regionalcontestlist (at) gmail (dot) com to be added to the list of groups coordinating these local "overlay" competitions.

The regional organiser's call sign and the geographic area or group of people to be covered should be in the email. No separate rules or scoring is required - the regional organiser takes the complete result list after the POC finishes and extracts the data out for those competing in their group or region to identify their local winners.

Full details of the Portable Operations challenge can be found at http://www.foxmikehotel.com/challenge/