Youngsters On The Air (YOTA)

Youngsters On The Air (YOTA)

Youngsters On The Air   |  Belgium-The Netherlands 2012   |   19 – 26 August 2012 Eeklo, Belgium

 

During the summer of 2012 (19 – 26 August) a youth radio camp will be held in Belgium, it is organised by UBA youth commission and the Dutch radio amateurs. The location for the event is close to the Dutch border. Many young radio amateurs from 10 different European countries will be participating in different activities e.g, contesting, ARDF, presentations, field-days, visiting radio stations and many more interesting events. There are 10 teams from different European member associations of IARU R1. A team consists of – a team leader (this could be an older person), and 4 team members between the age of 18-25 years. There is a special callsign achieved for the event – ON4YOTA. This will be a great experience for young HAM’s participating; it will be an occasion they will never forget.

A member of The Mayo Radio Experimenters Club Shauna Baynes EI1588 is a member of the team representing EI (Ireland). They will be travelling to Brussels on Saturday morning from Dublin, with their leader Ger McNamara EI4GXB from Limerick. The Mayo Radio Experimenters Club wishes Shauna and the team the best of luck during the event.

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Titanic Special Event Station EI 1 MGY

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic EI 1 MGY  were active from the 8th to 21st of April as part of the Addergoole Titanic Society’s centenary programme of events.

In April 1912 fourteen men and women from the Parish of Addergoole, in North Mayo, set sail from Queenstown, Cork for a new life in America. Within days, eleven had died in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Their ship, ‘Titanic’, sank on her maiden voyage.

Rural Ireland resounds with tales of emigration, steeped in the traditions of letting go. Addergoole will never let go of the memory of eleven neighbours and friends who disappeared with that “Ship of Dreams”.

For more information visit:

http://www.mayo-titanic.com/

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0406/1224314437755.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maura-kelly/centenary-spawns-titanic-_b_1402547.html

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