David Ruse, 8 years old
The first YOTA activation from Cyprus took place on Saturday, 7 December 2019.
David Ruse, 8 years old, activated 5B19YOTA, making a total of 52 QSO’s with 20 countries. This is the first time David has ever been on the air. As an added bonus, David made all his QSO’s via the Es’hail 2 / QO-100 satellite.
Click the following link to hear David making a QSO with IK1IYU.
David was so excited following his first experience with Amateur Radio that he has expressed an interest to get licensed! It’s worth noting that David comes from a family who are no strangers to amateur radio as both his father, mother, uncle and grandmother are all licensed.
Thank you goes out to Norman 5B4AIE for his help in getting David on the air.
During December the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is organizing the annual “Youngsters On The Air” (YOTA) event. The purpose of the event is to promote amateur radio to young persons, up to the age of 25 years old, encouraging them to operate and experiment on the ham bands with the help and guidance of licensed radio amateurs.
2020 is an important year for the 
During the entire month of December several youngsters will become active with YOTA as suffix in the callsign. The idea for this is to show the amateur radio hobby to youth and to encourage youngsters to be active on the ham radio waves.
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 1 November 2019 – Week 1 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference saw agreement reached on several issues on which discussions prior to the conference had revealed consensus. Those were the easy ones; the rest will be more difficult.
This is an advance notice that efforts are being made by CARS, in cooperation with the licensing authority in Cyprus, to organize the next examination for all those wishing to obtain the Harmonized Amateur Radio Examination Certificate (HAREC). The aim is for the examination to be held in February 2020. More information will be made available in due course.
The Nicosia Radio Club took part to IARU R1 Field day on the weekend 7th -8th of September 2019 from Kampi tou Kalogirou Camping site using the callsign 5B4NC/P.
