Winter is coming to the northern hemisphere, summer is starting in the southern part. Which means it’s time again for December YOTA month! We encourage you all to take part using a callsign with YOTA in suffix. The idea is to show the amateur radio hobby to youth and to encourage youngsters to be active on the ham radio waves.
Do you want to participate? Register here before December starts. 

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YOTA UK has ended, have a look at the daily diary showing the highlights of the entire week.

80 Youngsters from 26 countries will be enjoying an exciting week in the UK. A week full of ham radio and making new international friends. 

They are taking part in an interesting program, here a few highlights:
- Tuesday an ARISS contact with astronaut Paolo Nespoli
- Intercultural evening where everyone brings food from their home country
- Kit building
- SOTA activity
- Visit to London, Bletchley Park and Ofcom
- Operating the station GB17YOTA, in all kind of digital modes, CW and Phone
- ARDF
- All youngsters will taking part in the UK foundation license exam

These daily diaries are giving a brief summary of the activities they have joined. Take a look.
Follow the youngsters on the RSGB and YOTA social media pages. 

Last weekend the IARU R1 International Youth meeting took place at HAM Radio Friedrichshafen. An enthusiastic group of young people and youth workers attended the meeting. Philipp DK6SP and Florian OE3FTA gave a presentation about their experiences in IARU R1’s youth contesting program at 9A1A. Find here the presentation.
The meeting ended with a discussion where many youngsters and youth coordinators shared their experiences on youth activities in several IARU R1 member societies. 
A few highlights:

• HamCamp had this year more than 100 participants, mostly youth
• A youth team activated for a weekend PA6YOTA and PD6YOTA from club station PI4CC
• Many Italian youngsters attended the meeting and shared several activities, such as taking part in a contest from IY4FGM, the location where Marconi transmitted the first radio signals
• OeVSV shared their positive experiences of hosting YOTA 2016 in Austria
• Radio amateurs from Japan and the USA joined the meeting, with interest of bringing Youngsters On The Air to IARU Region 2 and 3

YOTA key and flag hand over
On Saturday afternoon the official YOTA flag was literally brought from OeVSV booth to the RSGB booth under loud cheering of a group of youngsters. With a ceremony at the RSGB booth the flag and morse key where handed over from the Austrian youngsters to the British youngsters. Which means YOTA UK is now almost going to start, with only 3 weeks left. We are looking forward to the event which will welcome more than 80 participants from around 30 member societies.