{"id":3063,"date":"2019-12-20T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/tf3yota-active-on-eshail-2-qo-100-satellite\/"},"modified":"2020-01-11T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T03:44:00","slug":"tf3yota-active-on-eshail-2-qo-100-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/tf3yota-active-on-eshail-2-qo-100-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"TF3YOTA active on Es\u2019hail-2 \/ QO-100 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">TF3YOTA active on Es\u2019hail-2 \/ QO-100 satellite<\/h2>\n<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=640&amp;h=513\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=640&amp;h=513 640w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=150&amp;h=120 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=300&amp;h=241 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=768&amp;h=616 768w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=821 1024w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg 1030w\" alt=\"El\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir TF2EQ operating TF3YOTA on QO-100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33620\" data-attachment-id=\"33620\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2019\/12\/20\/tf3yota-active-on-eshail-2-qo-100-satellite\/elin-sigurdardottir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1030,826\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX A900&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1576774807&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"El\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir TF2EQ operating TF3YOTA on QO-100\" data-image-description=\"\n\n\n<p>El\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir TF2EQ operating TF3YOTA on QO-100<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb data-medium-file=\u00bbhttps:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=300&#8243; data-large-file=\u00bbhttps:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/elc3adn-sigurc3b0ardc3b3ttir-tf2eq-operating-tf3yota-on-qo-100.jpg?w=593&#8243; width=\u00bb640&#8243; height=\u00bb513&#8243;><\/a><\/p>\n<p>El\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir TF2EQ operating TF3YOTA on QO-100<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Iceland\u2019s national amateur radio society, the IRA, reports <strong>El\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir TF2EQ<\/strong>, launched TF3YOTA from TF3IRA\u2019s radio room in Skeljanes on December 19.<\/p>\n<p>First at 14 MHz and when the conditions disappeared it switched to the IRA\u2019s satellite station for communication via the Es\u2019hail-2 \/ Qatar-Oscar-100 satellite. Ari \u00de\u00f3r\u00f3lfur J\u00f3hannesson TF1A, IRA VHF Manager, assisted Elina and posted, among other things, a fun video of the contacts on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The YOTA project began last year (2018) and will be operational in December each year. It is designed to increase young people\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n<p>El\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir TF2EQ, is the IRA\u2019s youth representative and YOTA project manager together with \u00c1rni Frey R\u00fanarsson, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Source IRA <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/IcelandIRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/IcelandIRA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>QO-100 information <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/geo\/eshail-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/geo\/eshail-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2019\/12\/20\/tf3yota-active-on-eshail-2-qo-100-satellite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get The Details&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nm5aka AMSAT-UK<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TF3YOTA active on Es\u2019hail-2 \/ QO-100 satellite<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/tf3yota-active-on-eshail-2-qo-100-satellite\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-amsat","tag-amsat","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}