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21 October 2021

• IARU R1 Youth Working Group connecting with Scouts
  IARU Region 1 report during the COVID-19 pandemic, Team YOTA established a monthly online series called “YOTA Online”. In one of its episodes the main topic covered was the 'JOTA/JOTI' scouts event
• School's ham radio space contact in the press
  Newbury Today reports on the amateur radio contact between students at Mary Hare school and the International Space Station
• UN Day transmission from Sweden's SAQ set for October 24
  On United Nations Day, Sunday October 24th, 2021, the unique and historical Alexanderson alternator in Grimeton Sweden, with call sign SAQ, is scheduled to send out a message to the whole world on 17.2 kHz CW
• Radio amateurs invited to participate in the Antarctic Eclipse Festival in December
  The HamSCI Antarctic Eclipse Festival in December is seeking amateur radio participation. As the shadow of the moon passes across Antarctica on December 4, it will generate traveling ionospheric disturbances that will, in turn, affect radio propagation
• New CQ World Wide Youth category to debut October 30-31
  The new Youth category for the CQ World Wide DX Contest will debut October 30 – 31 with the phone weekend. The category covers contesters age 25 years old or younger and applies to both the phone and CW weekends
• JOTA in Indonesia
  Jamboree On The Air activities over the weekend of October 16-17 were covered by the press in Indonesia and quoted on the ORARI website
• The low-down on long-wave: Unlicensed experimental radio
  In the 125 years since Marconi made his first radio transmissions, the spectrum has been divvied up into ranges and bands, most of which are reserved for governments and large telecom companies
• IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
  Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
• AMSAT-UK Online Colloquium Sunday Oct 24
  The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be held as an online Zoom Webinar on Sunday, October 24. You don’t have to be a member of AMSAT-UK to attend, and the event is free