YACHT NEWS for March 22, 2025
Connecting Young Hams, Creating Friendships, Expanding the Voice of Youth in Ham Radio
Inspiring Youth with Enjoyment & Technology of Amateur Radio
Sailing Through Radio Waves & Making a Difference
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website https://yachtyouth.net
YOUTH NET REVIEW… Nice net. Heard from: KE2EGF, KJ7AGQ, KN6ULC, KJ5EWP, KI5KGE, KF8AMV, KF0QNO, AC1QD. Also climbing on board: AB9PJ, KC8KLM, K5DCC, KC3CDU, KF9KI, K3TEL i/o
WEEKDAY EVENING CHAT SESSIONS… Monday: KJ7AGQ, KF8AMV, KC3RAP, KF8CZF, KE8ZYD, KI8AN, N8APR, N8STH, N8NJR, N8KMR. Also climbing aboard were: KC8KLM, K3DCR, K4KDP, K5NO, K7JKA, K8APR, KC3CDU.
Tuesday: On deck for this evening: KJ7AGQ, AC1QD, KF8AMV, KC8KLM 3rd party Chris, along with KC8KLM, KA4RCV, K5NO, VU2MDA, and KC3CDU.
Come and join us for the Wednesday chat session. All welcome especially our younger hams.
NEW MEMBERS… We welcome our newest members, WA7BUG Nathan from WA, DL7PIA Pia from Germany, and KE9CDQ Mason from WI. We have now added 14 new members to our team in 2025. Hope to hear all of them soon. They all have interesting QRZ pages. Look them up.
NEW MICHIGAN YOUTH MANAGER… We congratulate Kanushi KE8RNA, member #379 for her recent appointment as ARRL Youth Section Manager for Michigan. Another honor for a team member.
YOUTH IN AMATEUR RADIO POST… This was just written by Katie KE8LQR and merits reading by current and future youth hams https://www.onallbands.com/what-do-young-hams-do-for-amateur-radio
YACHT YOUTH & DAD… Walker KC3RAP (left), Dad K3DCR (middle) at a recent radio club meeting
OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUTH MEMBERS…
A number of our youth have already been involved in these outstanding events. An exciting time https://youthdxa.org/2025-team
Applications are now Being Accepted for 2025
David Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventures!
The Youth DX Adventure team will be returning to K3LR from June 13th- 15th, and will be returning to PJ2T (in Curaçao) from July 17th-22nd! If you are a young amateur operator between the ages of 12 to 17 (flexible), you are encouraged to apply!
To apply and for more information, please visit https://youthdxa.org/2025-team
IVAN’S YOUTH PROJECT… Here is member Ivan KE2EGF with his school Science project. Well done and impressive. This photo will be in our online newsletter (The one you are reading now) and able to be enlarged there.
EMAIL RESPONSE FROM A YL… An inspirational response to my recent email. Enjoy …
Hi Ed,
Thank you very much for your email and your kind words. Your information about YACHT was very interesting!
I also had a look on your website. It is really fantastic what you are doing for our wonderful hobby and how you support young ham radio operators!
I am very active in amateur radio. For me it’s very important to keep this wonderful and unique hobby alive. I try always to make amateur radio more visible for the public and to get more people especially young ones interested in it. Especially when I am operating portable in a park or from the mountains, there are a lot of interested people, asking me what I am doing. That’s the perfect way to tell them about our hobby and to show them what we are doing. It is not just words, but something real you can see, hear and experience. I think there is no other hobby that is such versatile and connecting as amateur radio is. Meanwhile I speak 6 languages and there are more to come. It’s so great if you can talk to someone in his or her native language. Also important for me is to show other young people, that it is not necessary to work on a big gun station to have a lot of fun in our hobby. I am working here still with simple homemade wire antennas and a Yaesu FT 991 A. Everything I have been able to achieve so far in world wide contests for example, was with my simple equipment. Sure it’s maybe easier to work at a big station, but it’s a great feeling if you can win a contest with your simple equipment and homemade antennas. Not every young person has the opportunity to operate from a big station or the financial resources to buy expensive equipment, but that doesn’t reduce the fun and enjoyment you can have!
It would be great to join your evening chat sessions or Sat. youth net, but as you said, it will be very difficult for me because of the time difference…
It would be an honor for me to become a member of YACHT! I saw on your website, that I can join YACHT with filling out a form and I will definitely do that.
I wish you a good new week and hope to hear you soon on the bands!
All the best to you and your family and greetings from the edge of the Black Forest!
73 de Pia, DL7PIA
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73, and welcome to 1st day of Spring on Thursday.
Ed Engleman KG8CX
