It's somewhat of a tradition now that Murphy should attend YOTA Contests as well; as the propagation was once again very bad during the contest for many participants. This put those who were operating simpler stations and overseas participants in a difficult situation.
The weak propagation also resulted in less LOGs submitted, but the number of young participants remained high.
Out of th 570 LOGs submitted 120 were sent by YOTA contestants. 68 young OPs worked 16 Multi-OP stations, which makes more than 170 official (with their LOGs submitted) YOTA-aged participants in the 1st Round.
However, about 29 YOTA stations did not submit a LOG. We encourage you to lower this number.
The most popular category among young contestants is 6H, followed by 3BAND and 12H. All three Single-OP and Multi-OP categories produced wonderful scores in close competition across the podiums. We predict that due to the close competition, having less errors will be crucial during score evaluation.
In addition, adult 3BAND and ALL-BAND contestants also had to work hard for their ranks.
With the end of the LOG submission period, score evaluation begins. We ask for your patience regarding the results, as we plan on making them public only after the Overall Scores of YOTA Contest 2024.
We send our congratulations to every participant. Thank you for taking part in our contest, we were so happy to hear so many old and new callsigns alike!
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