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VP News Ham Radio Training Programme A training Programme on ham radio has been started at Vigyan Prasar to help interested persons become hams by clearing the Amateur Radio Station Operator's Certificate examination conducted bythe Ministry of Communications. The course began on June 01, 2001 and is expected to continue for about six weeks. At present about twenty prospective hams have been taking training and are preparing for the ASOC grade I / II examination . Study materials have been provided to the participants. The programme began without any fanfare. Dr. V. B. Kamble, himself a ham with call-sign VU2VBK, delivered the inaugural talk highlighting the need, utility and importance of ham radio especially during the natural calamities. A live demonstration was organized by Shri Sandeep Baruah, VU2MUE. Several ham radio stations from different parts of the country provided support for the demonstration. Karan Bakshi VU3GTF (Delhi), Rakesh Kapoor VU2RAK (Delhi), Kumar VU2XD (Delhi), Deb VU2DAD (Akaltara, Chattisgarh), Madan Mohan Prasad VU2MMP (Begusarai, Bihar), and Dipu VU2DPD (Calcutta) were the hams who participated in the demonstration with the NCSTC / Vigyan Prasar ham radio club station VU2NCT. Different modes of radio communication (Morse code, telephony & Computer to Computer) were demonstrated to the participants. Shri D.P. De, VU2DPD from Calcutta responded to the Morse Code call from VU2NCT, and later on voice. Computer to Computer communication through amateur radio was demonstrated with the help of Shri Karan Bakshi, VU3GTF - a young and active amateur radio operator from Delhi. Text messages were exchanged between VU3GTF and VU2NCT's computers. |
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VP starts a chat session............... In our process of popularising Science and Technology, Vigyan Prasar has started a chat session on its homepage "www.vigyanprasar.com" or "www.vigyanprasar.org". This one-hour online interactive chat session is on different popular S&T topics like Health and Medicine, Basic Astronomy, Impact of Pesticides on health, Information Technology, Environment etc. The participants in the chat session can share their views, and know more about the subjects by asking questions on any of the S&T related topics and the experts or specialists in the respective topics will answer the questions. The first topic of the chat session was "Wonders of the Sky" held on 26th May,2001 at 11.00 a.m. Our expert in this session was Mr. Biman Basu, editor of popular science magazine "Science Reporter". The participants asked questions related to Astronomy in this session, which were answered by Mr. Basu. Dr. Yatish Agarwal, doctor and popular health columnist was the expert for our second Chat session on "Health and Medicine" conducted on 9th June, 2001. Similarly, we will have many more chat sessions on S&T topics. The topics and experts will be pre-selected and announced in advance on our homepage from time to time. We welcome you all to participate in this online chat sessions by logging onto our homepage "www.vigyanprasar.com" and "www.vigyanprasar.org" and get all your queries answered by our experts. Incase you are unable to access our homepage, you can email your queries in advance or immediately after the session to vigyan@hub.nic.in |
