Above image courtesy of the official YOTA Month website: https://events.ham-yota.com/
YOTA Month 2023 overview:
YOTA Month 2024 Participants:
Stations located within the Americas include:
In Canada:
- Ariel, VE2SZU, will be VC2YOTA
- Maria, VE3OMV, and Daniel, VE3FCT, will be VC3YOTA
- Andrew and his class will be VB7YOTA
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In the USA: K8YYOTA, K8OYOTA, K8TYOTA and W8AYOTA
In El Salvador: YS1YOTA
In Argentina: LT4YOTA
QSL and award information is at http://events.ham-yota.com.
Every December, Youth-operated stations around the world are part of a special event celebrating Youth in Amateur Radio (aka YOTA or Youth on the Air).
Amateur Radio operators age 25 and younger will be on the air as special event stations around the world throughout December in celebration of Youth in Amateur Radio. YOTA Month stations will be on all bands and modes at various times.
The official YOTA website describes the event in this way:
“The entire month of December several youngsters will become active with YOTA as suffix in the call sign. The idea for this is to show the Amateur Radio hobby to youth and to encourage youngsters to be active on the ham radio waves.
Give a demonstration in a school or local club, gather together with your friends, grab a pizza and make some QSOs or enjoy a great pile-up. Let us all show this great hobby to the world!
Feel free to make a QSO with the youngsters, they are happy to get some attention and exchange information. Licensed and unlicensed youth will be making QSOs, be aware this could be their first radio contact ever and give them a chance to experience a possible new hobby.
This is a direct link to the DXCluster already filtered to active stations within the December YOTA Month activity: DYM Stations 2024
Special Event Call Signs in Canada:
In Canada the following special event call signs will be active in December:
Ariel, VE2SZU, is back again this year to YOTA month and holds VC2YOTA.
VC3YOTA is held by Maria, VE3OMV, and she is going to work with Daniel, VE3FCT, so that the call sign will be active as often as possible. Please remember for many of these Amateurs this will be the first time they experience a pileup so be kind.
Special event call sign VB7YOTA:
“We are a Grade 6/7 class on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. We are once again excited to spend the month learning more about Amateur Radio with regular mini lessons on bands, antennas, phonetics and more. With every contact we work together to log it, then look up the call sign on QRZ to find the location, and add another pin to our world map showing all the contacts we have made over the year.
For our class station, we have a Kenwood V71a hooked up to a Comet GP-9 which provides VHF and UHF coverage. There is a TNC-X hooked up to a laptop that also allows us to send and receive Winlink messages. For HF coverage we have a Yaesu 991a that was kindly donated by a Silent Key VE7COG and is hooked up to a Comet CHA-250HD vertical on top of the school roof. We also have an AREDN dish hooked into the local network allowing for VOIP and other digital communications.”
More information about YOTA Month specifically in the Americas can be found at YouthOnTheAir.org. The Youth on the Air website is sponsored by ICOM America.
More information about YOTA Month globally can be found at events.ham- yota.com.