AMSAT NEWS SERVICE Supplement ANS-224.02

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* YOTA Group Earns AMSAT Satellite Communicators Club Awards

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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 224.02

From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.

August 12, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-224.02

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YOTA Group Earns AMSAT Satellite Communicators Club Awards

Faith Hannah Lea, AE4FH, reports from the YOTA Camp in South Africa, that about 20 youth members from the Camp made their first satellite contacts. The group had launched a BACAR (Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio) - a high altitude balloon with various radio equipment on-board to explore near-space. While waiting for the data to return from the BACAR package, the YOTA group operated from grid KG43 on multiple satellites, ranging from SO-50, AO-91, & AO-92. "All the YOTA ZS9 members, who made their first satellite contact will receive the AMSAT Satellite Communicators Club Award" said Bruce Paige, KK5DO, AMSAT Director, Contests & Awards.

Thirteen-year-old Faith Hannah Lea, AE4FH, of Palm Coast, Florida, is the only representative of International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU R-2) at the Youngster On The Air Camp 2018 this week in South Africa. The YOTA ZS 2018 Camp has eighty participants aged from 16 to 25, and from over 30 countries that have been invited to attend a fun-filled week of Amateur Radio from the 8th to the 15th August 2018.

More information is available at:

http://hamradio.world/ https://www.ham-yota.com/category/yota-2018/ http://www.arrl.org/news/young-us-radio-amateur-will-be-sole-iaru-region- 2-attendee-at-yota-camp

(ANS thanks the ARRL, AMSAT-NA, SARL, YOTA, and Faith, AE4FH for the above information)

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