YOTA – Youngsters on the Air in Austria

21 August 2016

In the first week of August 2016 the [IARU](http://www.iaru.org/)‘s Youth Event [YOTA](http://www.ham-yota.com/) came to Wagrain in Austria organized by [OEVSV](http://oevsv.at/home/). [YOTA](http://www.ham-yota.com/) is a youth camp for ham radio enthusiasts. There were a lot of activities including SummitsOnTheAir, a trip to the worlds largest ice cave and Hohenwerfen castle, lots of workshops about digital voice, [wspr](http://wsprnet.org/drupal/), LTE, antenna building and even a contact to the International Space Station. During the whole week our station OE2YOTA (special call sign) was on air with a 40m antenna tower (Thanks to [DP6T](http://www.dp6t.de/)) and we made over 7500 [QSO’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(amateur_radio)) [My family](http://www.wbsfilm.at) and me were part of the staff team and we contributed the official Yota Newsflash, a short newsclip with each day’s activities, filmed, edited and published every day. My father and me also held two of the workshops: one for building a High-Z HF Antenna and one for building and configuring a raspberry pi WSPR Beacon. During the week I met a lot of incredible new friends and we all had a great time. So as hams say: [73](http://www.signalharbor.com/73.html) de OE1LBS (file: wspr_yota2016.pdf text:Here) are my slides of the WSPR Workshop And here is an example newsflash (Check out all of them on [vimeo.com/channels/yota2016](https://vimeo.com/channels/yota2016)): (embed: https://vimeo.com/175276493)