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    A Report on YOTA Camp 2021 in Ohio

    Oct 01, 2021 5 minutes
    BY BECCA MCGRANE, KD9POK AND TAYLOR LAUB, KE8KWZ*

    ver since becoming licensed, it seems that I have always been the youngest ham in the room. () From club meetings to hamfests, I have always found myself surrounded by experienced, older hams. It gives me great joy to see their childlike smiles when they describe their seemingly magical boxes that let them talk around the world, but I’ve often longed to know that I am not the only person of my generation who can see this magic. To many hams, myself included, getting licensed felt like finding out I was a wizard. I could do all these cool things that no one around me understood. Then I got my acceptance letter for YOTA (Youth On The Air) Camp. Finding out that there was a).

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