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Mahamastabhisheka to be covered live on HAM radio

Staff Correspondent

SHRAVANABELAGOLA: Mahamastabhisheka will be covered live on HAM Radio. An Amateur (HAM) Radio Special Event Station will become operational and offer Amateur Radio Service by licensed HAM volunteers to assist the organisers in communication at Shravanabelagola and All Amateur (HAM) Radio licenses working from India will have their call sign prefix starting with VU2 or VU3, according to Special Event Station Coordinator, Ajoy.

Mr. Ajoy, who visited Shravanabelagola on Thursday, said volunteers who would assist the organisers would be on UHF and VHF hand held trans-receivers with a few base station equipment both fixed and mounted on vehicles to ensure quick communication handling messages of public safety, crowd control, etc. The Special Event Station at Shravanabelagola would be a high frequency (HF) station with capability of contacting many stations with power of 100 watts, he added.

Plans to link Internet with local VHF thru VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) using Echo link is also worked out from the state-of-the-art media centre at Shravanabelagola apart from other chat utility for those who are on this medium of communication.

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