OE/OK1JP/p and OE/OH6VA/p worked on 10 MHz cw today. I heard also OE2YOTA/p on 14.285 MHz but it didn’t me. Good luck for youngsters!
Thank you very much for the chaser activity - much appreciated!!
I hope we didn’t cause too much confusion. It’s not so easy to keep 41 youngsters all on one summit in check 
Will try to post pictures or even a video at a later time!
Now, how do I enter all those contacts for the special callsign OE2YOTA/P into the database? It’s only temporary, there is no email address, no particular user name, etc. I could enter.
How do I go about this 
?
Thanks for any ideas!
73, Sylvia
OE5YYN
Hi Sylvia,
I’m not sure if you will enter the contacts via the web page or in batch form, but if you enter via the web page - you log into the database as yourself and then in the Activation submission screen, put in the YOTA callsign.
As you also operated from the summit(s) you will get the points for the summit (but only once) - and then the chasers entries will match against the “callsign used” field.
73 Ed.
Yes, I was also wondering whether something like this might be a solution. Since I also activated the summit under my own callsign I will just add the OE2YOTA/P contacts without getting any extra points for this. I will, however, use the SOTA CSV Log Editor. Shouldn’t be a problem to use different callsigns in the same log.
Thanks for the help!
Vy 73, Sylvia
I have now logged the contacts under two different callsigns. The only problem is that all the QSOs that I logged for OE2YOTA/P are now listed as my QSOs and OE2YOTA/P is not listed as a separate activator…
73, Sylvia
Sorry I didn’t realise you wanted OE2YOTA as a different user. To do that you would need to create a new userid in the database and enter the data under that. However as OE2YOTA is a special event call sign that is only valid for a short period of time, I think it’s better that the contacts are entered under the control operator (which is you if I understood correctly).
When chasers try to match their calls to activators, as you entered OE2YOTA/P in the “callsign used” field, the database matching logic will use that and the chasers will get a valid contact confirmation.
73 Ed.
Who is OE2YOTA? Is it a person? Is it a club?
If lots of people used OE2YOTA then they enter the QSOs into their own accounts using callsign OE2YOTA.
If somebody used the call and they don’t have their own licence, then the QSOs are logged under the account of the person supervising again using OE2YOTA.
OE2YOTA is the temporary callsign used for the Youngsters On the Air Camp here in Austria. We used OE2YOTA/P for one activation and I have logged this activation under my account which I, just like Ed, thought was the easiest way of dealing with it. I just don’t want to give the impression that I took credit for all those contacts as they are listed under may callsign now…
73, Sylvia
That’s OK. It’s just how things work here.
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Hi Sylvia,
I think the other point is that those young amateurs are not existing SOTA activators or chasers (maybe they will be after this experience - maybe not). So if you weren’t to enter all the contacts made, the other operators probably would not. While it is not neccessary for a SOTA activator to enter contacts made, it is nice to have them in the database so that a chaser can check he made a valid contact.
This is a special case, I don’t think there is one “right answer” but I believe what you have done is the most logical.
Ed.
I suppose this was actually the only feasible way of logging the contacts. It would have been far too complicated for each of them to open an account and log those few QSOs individually.
I can live with this solution.
73, Sylvia
This is the promised video of our SOTA activation of OE/SB-206 and the radio activities from the other summit
HAM YOTA Newsflash Thursday from ÖVSV on Vimeo.
73, Sylvia
OE5YYN
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GREAT GREAT GREAT VIDEO!! This is the kind of publicity that Amateur radio needs to present to youth - this video was great because it was all about SOTA but all of the other activities at YOTA which have been very professionally recorded are definitely worth viewing and promoting as well.
Great job to all behind YOTA in Austria, you’ve set a high standard to meet for the organisers of YOTA 2017 in the UK (I believe).
73 Ed.
P.S. there appeared to be TWO delegations from Germany - one from Bavaria and one from the rest of Germay is that right? have we had a BYEXIT and no one said anything? Joking apart, A great number of countries involved, I saw there was participation from the USA, perhaps Australia and New Zealand could send attendees next year?
I was not involved in the organisation of this year’s YOTA but as far as I know it’s mainly an IARU Region 1 Event with other regions being invited as well. I suppose it’s only a matter of funding…
There was only one German delegation but maybe the majority of the participants was from Bavaria (I suppose you were hinting at the fact that they hung up the German AND the Bavarian flag 
) ???
YES, it was definitely a very successful event!
73, Sylvia
Yes, in two sections of the video a team with the Bavarian flag and another team with the national German flag could be seen. All in fun - they were all having a great time.
73 Ed.
Nice video, congratulations to all involved!
I was particularly interested in seeing an Arrow II antenna being used at one point - it can be seen at 02:17 in the video - and how it’s being supported on a tripod, since I’ve just purchased one of these antennas (as replacement for one that went missing) and was thinking along very much the same kind of lines of how to support it. Holding it in the hand while TXing can be tiring after a while…
Rob
Hi Rob,
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an adapter that somehow clamps onto the boom and then screws onto a standard, designed for camera base, bolt. So with a camera tripod with a ball-head on it you can adjust horizontal and vertical direction easily. I can’t remember if what I saw was a commercial product or something an amateur had machined up. I’ll see if I can find it again on the web, it was some time ago.
I think the principal was you set the elevation to a compromise position and then turned the antenna as the satellite passed. Not perfect but probably better than hand-held.
73 Ed.
Hi Ed,
the trouble with all-metal adapters in certain configurations is that the radiation pattern of the antenna could be compromised. This is especially the case, as you will no doubt be aware, when using the antenna for terrestrial FM contacts (with, e.g. a handheld TRX), where the antenna elements need to be vertically-aligned: the tripod neck and legs are also vertically-aligned. Using some kind of non-conducting support (as in the video) to raise the antenna away from the tripod then makes sense.
Rob
OK, understood. I guess in the case of use for satellites however having the tripod metal behind the reflector of both the 2m and 70 cm antennas should be less of a problem.
Great little (light) antenna in any case. I used to have two of them, now only one. If I decide to do any VHF activations that’s probably the antenna I would grab to take with me.
73 Ed.
This is the latest video and a summary of this year’s YOTA Austria:
YOTA Camp 2016 from ÖVSV on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
73, Sylvia