Date: Saturday 29th of June, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: Room Berlin, Conference Center East.
With lectures from:
Tommy Degrande ON2TD, Belgian Youth Coordinator of UBA: Youth activities in Belgium
Remko Welling PE1MEW, JOTA-JOTI Coordinator The Netherlands: Jamboree on the air and scout activities, successful JOTA-JOTI in The Netherlands with over 200 scoutings participating every year.
Mari Nikkilä OH2FPK, Finnish Youth Coordinator of SRAL: Youth activities in Finland
Saturday 15th of June the next Kids’ Day will be held. There are adjustments in the suggested frequencies for IARU R1 which fit better in IARU R1 HF Bandplan. Only 40m and 80m are changed to suit with ARRL frequencies.
Suggested frequencies IARU R1:
10 Meters: 28.350 to 28.400 MHz
15 Meters: 21.360 to 21.400 MHz
20 Meters: 14.270 to 14.300 MHz
40 Meters: 7.080 to 7.120 MHz
80 Meters: 3.650 to 3.750 MHz
Other suggested frequencies by ARRL:
12 Meters: 24.960 to 24.980 MHz
17 Meters: 18.140 to 18.145 MHz
40 Meters: 7.270 to 7.290 MHz
80 Meters: 3.740 to 3.940 MHz
Kids Day is an on-air event to encourage young people (licensed or not) to have fun with Amateur Radio. The Kids Day operating event is not a contest. It’s a way to tell young people worldwide about the magic and mystery of two way hobby radio communications. To do this, Amateur radio stations are being asked to devote this short time window to promote the terrestrial hobby and ham radio satellite operations to youngsters. This, by providing a place to make contacts with other Kids Day stations around the world. It is designed to give on-the-air experience to youngsters and hopefully foster interest in getting a license of their own. It is also intended to give older hams a chance to share their station and love for Amateur Radio with their children.
Suggested exchange: Name, age, location and favourite colour. Be sure to work the same station again if an operator has changed. To draw attention, call “CQ Kids Day.”
You can also use your favourite repeater (with permission of the repeater’s sponsor). Be sure to observe third-party restrictions when making DX QSOs.
After Youngsters On The Air 2012, Johan SM5F, Swedish Youth Coordinator of SSA, had the idea to participate with a youth team from “big gun station” SK3W. The choice went to the CQ WPX SSB contest in Multi/Multi mode. This weekend, 30 – 31 March 2013, 16 young HAMs (under the age of 25) from Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Estonia and The Netherlands will travel to SK3W. Also a few youngsters without radio license will join us. We met them during Youngsters On The Air (as example the YOTA-cook). We all know you have to come in contact with the “radio-virus” first.
Updates from the youngsters will be placed on their facebook group page
Date: June 12 – 16, 2013
Venue: Tři Studně, Czech Republic
More information is available at http://eyac2013.com/
Piotr SO9DXX, currently 12 years old, received his Novice license one year ago in February 2012 when he was 11 years old. His interest in amateur radio had been aroused by his father SP9UPK. Read the interview with Piotr about his experiencse of last Kids Day, which was held on 6 January 2013.
What was your Kids Day location?
I prefer field activity, I went with my daddy by car to the nearby Protected Landscape Area “Wzgorze Doroty” (Dorothy Hill – eng.). It is just 365 meters above sea level with a wonderful view. We did set up our equipment on the hill .
What was your favourite QSO during Kids day?
I remember a QSO with a Russian station RA3PCI, because we talked with Sergiusz in my native language. I am also very satisfied with RTTY QSO on 30 meters band with Marek SP3GVX, probably the propagation was not so good in this day due to the short distance — his signal was very low but the QSO was ok.
How was Kids Day?
Kids Day is a really cool event for having fun with Amateur Radio. It was a fantastic day to use the radio equipment which I prepared the day before together with daddy. In this year the weather was quite just about zero degrees Celsius and a small snow was falling down. I met lots of interesting people on the air and improved my skills, also English.
Special thanks to my mum for delicious cake and hot chocolate.
You are also a member of the radio club SP9YFF, in what kind of activities are you participating with your club and what do you like about the club?
In my spare time, apart from schoolwork, I participate in the main club activities such as working from castles, national and nature parks in the World Castles Award and WFF program. I like being in the nature. Trying to make wire antenna’s with my dad, making QSO’s with the antenna’s and being active in the field area.
Besides Kids Day and your club, in which way are you active with the radio hobby?
Apart from club activities I try a little DX-ing, my goal in this year is to have 100 countries from the DXCC-list confirmed. I would also like to start learning Morse code.
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