Category: Ham Radio

Finally I got my ham license on 7th November 2005. I checked into the trivand\rum City VHF net at 9.30 pm using the equipment kindly spared by VU2SXA. There\ were 4 people on the net: VU3BHU the net controller, vu2csb vu2lbm and myself.\ They were all excited about getting a new member to the community.… Continue reading My First Contact on air

I am pretty excited about getting my ham ticket. I have been doing a lot of home work on principles of radio, antenna and propagation. I I bought a new Philips radio and fixed up a long wire as antenna on the terrace (my wife uses it to dry cloths too). I can hear lot… Continue reading Ham thrills

I had almost forgotten about my ham radio license. I wrote the examination at Trivandrum centre of WPC on 20th January 2004. I was expecting a license in 4 to 5 months time. But nothing happened for a long time. I thought something had gone wrong after reading Ramakrishnan’s experience about ham license in India… Continue reading Ham radio License