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1) We have created a new YOUTH overlay that will be available to all competitors who are 25 years old or under, effective on the dates of the contest. The Cabrillo overlay format will be CATEGORY-OVERLAY: YOUTH. In support of this change, Youth overlay entries will be highlighted in the results (as is currently done for Classic and Rookies). In addition, plaques will be available for the winners.
Read more about the current rule changes here. These changes will apply in SSB and CW parts of CQWW from 2021!
We are also proud to announce that several IARU Youth Working Groups, YOTA Teams and individuals worldwide will sponsor the accompanying plaques for this new YOUTH overlay. Check out all available plaques for the 2021 events here.
Thanks to all involved into the process to making this happen!
One of the few things left is to plan your CQWW effort now and win the new YOUTH plaques!
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Team YOTA established a monthly online series called “YOTA Online”. In one of its episodes the main topic covered was the “JOTA/JOTI” scouts event.
Through this one hour live-show we, the IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group, connected to the former International Commissioner of the RdP (Ring deutscher Pfadfinder) towards the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), Marcus Klapdor.
Through lots of online meetings and phone calls we were invited to join the German JOTA/JOTI Headquarters during the worldwide event held during 15th — 17th October 2021. Thus, our preparations for putting up a reasonable amateur radio setup for HF and QO100 operations started soon. With the very obliging help of fellow hams we were able to put together and operate the station DL0JOTA. This special callsign was brought on the air at the “Castle Rieneck” near Frankfurt, Germany, by a small delegation of the IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group.
While around 20 scouts from all over Germany joined this event, also international active Scouts were present at the location. Claudia Großer (DC2CL), Philipp Springer (DK6SP) and Markus Großer (DL8GM) were very happy to introduce these commited people into the world of amateur radio and its youth working within IARU Region 1. Further, good questions were asked by all attending and were answered in the best way possible. Good talks with the Chairperson of the European Scout Committee within WOSM, Lars Kramm, among others have been very informative and target-oriented. We, as the Youth Working Group within IARU Region 1 will keep this good contact into the committee and will negotiate about future joint-events and cooperations again soon.
The Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) program included activities like operating a HF radio or via the geo-stationary satellite QO-100 on side-band or digital. Though, the best response from the attending Scouts was the presentation of morse code. We were very impressed what these young talented people already knew and asked in detail with lots of emphasize. Also, skeds with other worldwide Scout groups in different countries like Luxembourg, The Netherlands, England among others were successfully completed. Furthermore, we prepared a small ARDF fox hunt to show off the big variety of our common hobby.
The organizers of this Scout get-together took care of the Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) part of the event themselves. They programmed little Micro:Bit computers, chatted with worldwide Scouts or printed 3D-models of antennas etc..
In summary, it can be said that the trusting cooperation so far has been a complete success. This was confirmed by the first personal meeting of those involved in the project and is to be continued and steadily expanded in the future. Stay tuned!
IARUR1 Youth WG delegation together with one of the event organizers
Hexbeam built on the on top of the castle tower at the location
DL8GM and DK6SP bringing up the Hexbeam
Difficult equipment transportation
Hexbeam on top of the castle tower
80m ARDF fox hunt
Scouts doing ARDF instructed by the IARUR1 Youth WG
Scouts doing ARDF instructed by the IARUR1 Youth WG
3D printing during JOTA/JOTI
HF station DL0JOTA
IARUR1 Youth WG delegation at DL0JOTA
Scout scarf handed over by the Scouts to the IARUR1 Youth WG delegation
On Friday the 15th of October, the IARUR1 Conference & Workshop addressing the future of amateur radio has started. Almost 140 delegates are taking part the upcoming week, till the 24th of October, in several break-out sessions where they will work as teams on defining visions and ambitions for amateur radio, strategic objectives, with as end goal, actions, milestones and deliverables. This is just a selection of what they will be doing. During yesterday’s opening, Don Beattie G3BJ, IARUR1 President, was highlighting: “From time to time, a number of you have expressed your concerns to me about the position of amateur radio today, views which are shared by the EC You have said that we need to improve our public relations. You have said that we need to form alliances with other organisations in related fields and so strengthen our position. You have said that we should be recruiting into Amateur Radio people from other related interest groups. All of these are very valid comments, but they risk overlooking one important point. The amateur radio we talk about today is very often the amateur radio of the past. “ Don continues, and mentions that we need a shared vision of what amateur radio is becoming or needs to become. “We will not have solved all our problems by next Sunday. We must see this event as the continuation of a process which we started earlier this year with the SWOT analysis (referring to the SWOT analysis session on 24 March 2021) and which will continue for several years to come. But it will help us to set the direction for work on the development of the hobby over the next ten years”
Follow the Conference & Workshop on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates.
The IARU Region 1 ATV Contest was held on 12⁄13 June 2021. Due to travel restrictions in some countries caused by the COVID 19 pandemic, the main scoring tables have again been split into 2 sections. Section 1 is for entrants who only operated from their home station address, whereas those operating from alternative addresses or portable locations entered Section 2.
There were 85 entrants from 8 countries competing, using all bands from 432 MHz to 76 GHz.
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