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Announcing: YARC Youth Contesting Program!

On behalf of the Young Amateurs Radio Club (YARC) I’m pleased to announce the:

Youth Contesting Program!

YARC’s Youth Contesting Program (YCP) is a weekend program for groups of young amateur radio contesters throughout the US and Canada to meet up at a nearby-as-possible “big gun stations” during the 2019 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest taking place 30-31 March 2019. It will hopefully enable a new dimension of the hobby to young hams who have contested a little before, and set a new precedent for the welcoming of a new generation of radiosport aficionados.

It works like this – we will attempt to pair a small group (up to 4) of young contesters interested in operating with a “big gun” station owner interested in hosting the youth group. The contesters will operate from the station, and the host has the option to help the youth improve their skills, provide advice, and even operate alongside. We will try to keep it such that young hams will only require a relatively short drive (ideally no more than 5 hours) to keep travel costs low. As such, this will require the participation of as many operators and hosts as possible, but it might so happen that a valid match may not exist. We will try our best and work to make this a better program in the future!

YARC YCP is inspired by the efforts of YOTA’s YCP, as well as Team Exuberance and we hope to inspire a big chunk of young hams into becoming the greatest contesters of the 21st century.

SIGNUP HERE

If you’re a young ham (or know a young ham) (under age 27 or so) with at least a little bit of contesting experience, and you’d be interested in spending March 30-31 (CQ World-Wide WPX SSB) at a contest-grade ham radio station, OR if you’re the owner of such a station, sign up at the Google form here: https://yarc.world/ycp/ (or scroll to the bottom to find the survey conveniently embedded!)

Note – because we’re trying to keep costs low by making this a drivable event for our young ops, we can’t promise that you’ll be selected as a host or operator, especially if either no young ops signup nearby your station or there’s no station near young operators. Since this is our first try, we probably have a lot to learn about this, so bear with us!

Thanks,

Sterling, N0SSC
YARC Programs & Outreach Dude

Young Hams Survey

YOUNG HAMS SURVEY CLICK HERE!

At the above link, you’ll find a google survey (created by WA1TE and edited by the YARC community)that has a bunch of questions that will help the community at large understand the interests and challenges of youth in ham radio better. If you’re under age 26, go take it, and if not, well…you can take it too but understand we’re trying to get a youth perspective, so. Yeah. 

Who’s we? Young hams! That’s who. Also I turn 27 in 8 days :'( 

https://yarc.world/

PS my callsign is currently KQ0B, but I didn’t realize at the time how important N0SSC is to me…like this website…so I’m in the process of changing it back. Lol. 

 

Introducing Young Amateurs Radio Club QSO Party…with PRIZES!

This is exciting.

I haven’t been around for a while, because life is busy: I bought a house, got married, and have been working overtime, so there it little room for ham radio.

But I had to come back to announce this.

On December 1, 2018, the YARC Winter QSO Party will begin. This is a QSO party open to all to introduce and encourage young people to get on the air.

There is a special surprise with this contest: PRIZES!

Courtesy of the people who bring you Hamstudy, winners of the following categories:

  • First Place, Single-Operator QRP
  • First Place, Single-Operator Low
  • First Place, Single-Operator High
  • Second Place, New Contester

Will have a choice of one of the following prizes:

  • NooElec SDR Bundle
  • Baofeng UV-5R
  • 1 SignalStick whip antenna and 1 HamStudy.org t-shirt

Winners of the following categories:

  • First Place, Multi-Single Low
  • First Place, Multi-Single High
  • First Place, Multi-Multi Low
  • First Place, Multi-Multi High
  • First Place, School Club
  • Second Place, School Club
  • First Place, New Contester

Will have a choice of one of the following prizes:

  • 2019 ARRL Handbook (Softcover Edition) and 2 SignalStick whip antennas
  • Arrow II 146-3 Handheld Portable Yagi Antenna
  • QRPLabs QCX QRP Tranceiver Kit and 2 SignalStick whip antennas

The team at YARC has been hard at working getting this put together, and finally it’s live! We can’t wait to work you on the air from WY4RC!

All rules are located at https://yarc.world/events/contests/2018/09/18/winter-qso-party-2018/ and you’re invited to join the YARC Discord Chat and the /r/amateurradio subreddit thread for questions and comments. This is a first time thing, so expect a few bumps on the way.

Update 2018 Nov 27: Because of all the flak we’ve received about how this contest could put operators in a sticky situation regarding pecuniary interest, the prizes were changed from $25-$75 Visa gift cards to amateur radio gear.