Elín Sigurðardóttir TF2EQ operating TF3YOTA on QO-100
Iceland’s national amateur radio society, the IRA, reports Elín Sigurðardóttir TF2EQ, launched TF3YOTA from TF3IRA’s radio room in Skeljanes on December 19.
First at 14 MHz and when the conditions disappeared it switched to the IRA’s satellite station for communication via the Es’hail-2 / Qatar-Oscar-100 satellite. Ari Þórólfur Jóhannesson TF1A, IRA VHF Manager, assisted Elina and posted, among other things, a fun video of the contacts on Facebook.
The YOTA project began last year (2018) and will be operational in December each year. It is designed to increase young people’s interest in amateur radio. The project is under the auspices of IARU Area 1 and all national amateur radio amateurs in the Region are involved (as well as national members of Regions 2 and 3).
Elín Sigurðardóttir TF2EQ, is the IRA’s youth representative and YOTA project manager together with Árni Frey Rúnarsson, TF8RN. They plan to activate the call sign on as many HF bands (as required) throughout the month, as well as contacts on the OSCAR-100 satellite.
Source IRA https://tinyurl.com/IcelandIRA
QO-100 information https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/eshail-2/