Hobby: Amateur Wireless Operation

Hobby : Amateur Wireless operation

People pursue them pursue their hobbies in their leisure time which is very difficult in real time. One of the is an amateur wireless operator. Such operators contact with each other through transreceiver. They have licence issued by the authority, in India Wireless Planning Coordinating wing of Ministry of Communication & IT issue the licence to those who pass the examination conducted by them.  

Each such operator is allotted a call sign which is unique to identify the individual or club station from where he/she is operating, it has a prefix, such as all Indian operators are having VU followed by figure 2 or 3 and then two or three alphabets may be his/her choice (if available). Our ex Prime Minister Late Rajiv Gandhi call sign is VU2RG, he had contributed a lot for promoting this scientific hobby. 

These operators give the service to the mankind in natural calamities, Maj De was at Andaman & Nicobar in December 2004 on Bank’s job , a team of such operators from Hyderbad were operating from Port Blair. They had given yeomen service when Tsunami took place. The only Bank was affected in Andaman & Nicobar was Hut Bay Branch of our. In 2006 the National Disaster Management Authority organised the first our National Disaster Congress at New Delhi, Sushanta De’s paper on ‘Role of Amateur Wireless operator for Disaster Mitigation’ was  discussed.  

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Now these operator can operate through internet with a soft ware call Echo link, the operators exchange their QSL card as a proof of  their contacts,  

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29th December 2014