YOTA Month 2023 has begun

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YOTA Month 2023 has begun

Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) month has now begun. Call sign GB23YOTA is active for the duration of the month, with a range of groups, clubs and individuals having reserved operating slots.

Cray Valley Radio Society is active with the call sign between 12pm and 6pm on Sunday 3 December.

On Monday 4 December, Wick High School is the first of several schools this week to be operating GB23YOTA. It will be on the air between 8am and 5pm.

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Park Activation Marks Anniversary of Deadly Bombing

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Amateur radio teaches important lessons in history as much as in science and technology and the special POTA activation happening in the US in another week marks a painful part of America’s Civil Rights history 60 years ago. In Birmingham, Alabama, the callsign KØMIK will be on the air on 15-16th September 2023 from the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument in Kelly Ingram Park, which has the POTA designation K-3602. The park is across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church where on 15th September 1963, while Sunday school children inside were listening to a lesson in "A Love that Forgives," the church was bombed.

Four young women died that day. Their pictures are on the monument that stands facing the church. KØMIK is the callsign of the OMIK (PRON: O-MIKE) Amateur Radio Association, an international organisation that is the largest predominantly Black amateur radio association in the US. The activation will be primarily on 40, 20, 17 and 15m using CW, SSB and satellite. Tom Gaines KB5FHK told Newsline that anyone living in or visiting the Birmingham area that weekend is welcome to stop by the activation which is also part of OMIK's ongoing POTA challenge.

HamSCI Solar Eclipse QSO Parties

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Join with thousands of your fellow amateurs as part of the largest crowd-sourced contest for ham radio scientific exploration ever! The SEQP is for learning more about how the ionosphere works. Use any mode, any band for all or part of each day! Participation can be from everywhere – you need not be near the path of either eclipse to contribute valuable data by participating.

For details on the SEQP contest and rules go to http://www.hamsci.org/contest-info.

For the Gladstone Signal Spotting Challenge using CW, WSPR and FST4W modes - http://www.hamsci.org/contest-info.

If you’re an SWL or AM DX’er, there is an event for you as well - http://www.hamsci.org/mw-recordings/.