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Call for applications YOTA 2016‏ Austria
· Youth General · Lisa, PA2LS

The 6th edition of Youngsters On The Air will take place in Austria. OeVSV (Österreichischer Versuchssenderverband), which will celebrate their 90 years anniversary, will be hosting next YOTA summer event. 75 Youngsters will be invited to travel to the Austrian Alps to enjoy a program with many new elements compared to previous years.
It will be a great experience for all participants which they will never forget. To get a better feeling about this, have a look at the gallery from previous events.

When: 16 – 23 July 2016

Participants:
Each IARU member society is invited to take part with a team. A team consist of maximum 5 persons, 4 Persons with the age 15 – 25 years and one person is dedicated as team leader.
* All participants, including team leaders, should take part in the entire program.
* We ask member societies to select motivated participants
Team leaders:
* Younger team leaders are preferred (age 18 – 30 years)
* A team leader should be in a good health condition, which means that they can take part in the entire program and take care of their team members. 

Location: Wagrain, south of Salzburg (OE2)

Fees: travel costs to Salzburg airport or Wagrain and €25 per participant

All other costs (accomodation, food, activities) will be covered, main funder of the event is IARU R1.
If your member society is interested to participate, please respond to austria@​ham-​yota.​com by 31 December 2015 by sending in the application form. There is a limit of 75 participants. Make sure you will apply in time. We will announce the participating countries shortly after the deadline.
For any questions, please contact austria@​ham-​yota.​com

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Hurricane Patricia — Final
· Emergency Comms · Greg, G0DUB

FMRE have advised that the Amateur Radio response to Hurricane Patricia which passed over their country this weekend is now complete and all frequencies are returned to normal use.

The storm downed trees, flooding streets, and buffeted buildings as a category‑5 storm, but lost strength in the mountains and was downgraded to a tropical storm. Initially when it made landfall in western Mexico with rain and winds of up to 266km/h, it was one of the strongest ever hurricanes.

The remnants of the storm were also being watched in case they caused flooding in the US state of Texas but this only caused limited damage and no amateur radio activity has been reported from that state yet.

Thanks are expressed for keeping the requested emergency frequencies clear.

Sources: XE2PNA, XE1VP, VK3PC

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Hurricane Patricia — Mexico
· Emergency Comms · Greg, G0DUB

The strongest ever hurricane recorded in the Americas is heading towards Mexico’s Pacific coast causing a state of emergency to be declared in three states in its path. Hurricane Patricia is expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon with winds of 200mph/325kph.

Radio Amateurs in Mexico are already starting operations on 7.060MHz LSB in preparation for the storms arrival and all are encouraged to keep this frequency clear as the situation develops.

UPDATE — 14.120 and 21.120MHz may also be used according to information from FMRE.

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Typhoon warning in the Philippines
· Emergency Comms · Greg, G0DUB

Authorities are concerned about the effects of Typhoon Koppu that may last three days, as the weather system is trapped in its movement by another typhoon.

So far it’s a wait and see matter, but the Philippine Amateur Radio Association (PARA) has activated its HERO (Ham Emergency Radio Operations) Network DX1PAR is monitoring 7.095 MHz.

Joho DU1VHY said the HERO Network has also been set up at the request of the National Telecommunication Commission’s Deputy Commissioner.

HERO traffic so far only has one significant report from the province of Aurora where there is an increase in rain and wind velocity.

Typhoon Koppu is expected to track upwards through the centre of Luzon Island. It made landfall early on Sunday and is not expected to leave the archipelago until Tuesday.

The weather forecast is for there to be heavy to intense rainfall and possible storm surges in coastal areas. Due to its interaction with the nearby Typhoon Champi, it may move slowly across the northern end of Luzon, and be almost stationary once it hits.

-Jim Linton VK3PC, Chairman IARU Region 3 Disaster Communications Committee.

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Next YCP contest location: 9A1A
· Youth General · Lisa, PA2LS

9A1A contest location is in village Kozjača, located about 40km SE from Zagreb or 20 km from Zagreb Airport. Station is constructed for Multi – Multi operation, and such installation permits MS, M2 or SO SB contest participation. Station set up includes to be on air in SO SB category in same time on all six bands.

There are 4 antenna towers, 2 times 36 meters, one 40m and one 26m height.
Shack has 62,5 m² including operating room, small bath room, kitchen and sleeping room.
The whole infrastructure is built in accordance to Croatian law. It passed „Technical Acceptance Test” and it has „Usage permit“ issued by appropriate authorities.
That means „No problem with any possible complaints from neighbours“ !

Antenna installation has 36 various antennas. Antenna systems are selected by antenna switchers, antenna rotation is in use in rare situations.

9A1A has two contest teams.
The first one is consisted by all club members having good contesting skills, and team includes our youngsters too. 9A1A call is in use. Guest operators from all over the world are always welcome.

Second team is youngsters’ team.
They started in amateur radio as second grade students of Technical school Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb. Some of them are now on University, some of them are still school students. In contests they are using call 9A1RBZ. They are in age between 16 and 20. 9A1RBZ is call for station installed in school. Croatian Amateur Radio sub law permits use of any call on other location with power limits given in licence of host station, and that is why they are using 9A1RBZ call.

9A1RBZ members have been world winners as team or single band operators in EA RTTY Contest 2014, SCC RTTY Championship 2014, YO DX HF Contest 2014. They have been on top list two times in UBA DX Contest SSB, years 2014 and 2015. Claimed scores in SCC RTTY Championship 2015 shows to be world winner again.

From this year starting with SAC SSB Contest 9A1RBZ will participate in IARU Region 1 „Youth Contesting Program“ — YCP.

In SAC SSB 9A1RBZ team members are :
OE3FTA, Florian
HA8RT,Tomi
9A7MIM, Mihaela
9A7MSM, Marija
9A7CDZ, Domagoj 
9A5CPP, Petar

Maybe some others will join them.

Youngsters from IARU R1 are welcome to participate in 9A1RBZ contest team. Next contest planned is EA RTTY Contest 2016.

Actions will be coordinated with Lisa, PA2LS IARU R1 Youth WG Chairman.

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