{"id":3482,"date":"2026-03-01T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:10:10","slug":"students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Students On The Air Satellite Activity Starts March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Students On The Air Satellite Activity Starts March 3<\/h2>\n<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36472\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2026\/03\/01\/students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3\/stota\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp\" data-orig-size=\"714,892\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"0\"}' data-image-title=\"StOTA\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Students On The Air &amp;#8211; StOTA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Students On The Air &amp;#8211; StOTA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp?w=240\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp?w=593\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36472 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp?w=240\" alt=\"Students On The Air - StOTA Every 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month starting March 3, 2026\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp?w=240 240w, https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp?w=480 480w, https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/stota.webp?w=120 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMSAT has announced the launch of Students On The Air (StOTA) Days, a new initiative aimed at encouraging student participation in amateur satellite operations. The activity was inspired by AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, and his son Carsten, KQ4SJM, and is designed to promote regular on-air activity among licensed student operators.<\/p>\n<p>Students are encouraged to get on the air and operate via amateur satellites on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, beginning March 3, 2026. While student-to-student contacts are especially encouraged, all satellite operators are welcome to participate and help make students feel welcome on the air.<\/p>\n<p>To support coordination, AMSAT has created a dedicated #students-on-the-air channel on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/xbTXcPJHyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMSAT Discord Server<\/a><\/strong> where participants can arrange contacts and share activity.<\/p>\n<p>AMSAT Discord Invite <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/xbTXcPJHyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/discord.gg\/xbTXcPJHyt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>StOTA (Students On The Air) channel <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/715554730323083274\/715891435143954512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/715554730323083274\/715891435143954512<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports of StOTA activity and contacts are encouraged and may be submitted to Carsten, KQ4SJM, whose contact information is available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/KQ4SJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>QRZ.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Activity reports will help AMSAT gauge participation and support future student-focused satellite initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Source AMSAT News Service <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.amsat.org\/postorius\/lists\/ans.amsat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/mailman.amsat.org\/postorius\/lists\/ans.amsat.org\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2026\/03\/01\/students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get The Details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editor  <\/p>\n<p>AMSAT-UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSAT has announced the launch of Students On The Air (StOTA) Days, a new initiative aimed at encouraging student participation in amateur satellite operations. The activity was inspired by AMSAT President Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, and his son Carsten, KQ4SJM, and \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2026\/03\/01\/students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/students-on-the-air-satellite-activity-starts-march-3\/\">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","has-excerpt","post-3482","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\/3482","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=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}