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Amateur Radio Day today

Ramesh Susarla

GUNTUR: Andhra Pradesh has a special place in world Amateur Ham Radio activities with majority of Indian amateurs coming from this state and reaching out to millions of people countrywide in times of calamities coming to their rescue when it was most needed.

Ham Radio operators are celebrating world Amateur Radio Day on Friday with a great track record and expecting to rope in more number of youngsters into this fold and providing the latest technological edge for making it an effective communication network in times of calamities and a social community network in ordinary times. The Centre for Disaster Management through Ham Radio, a non-governmental organisation, has been training several sections of people in the country to impart awareness on this hobby that could widen the horizon of its practitioners at minimal costs, its Director P. Sankara Rao told The Hindu. As part of its dream it proposes to create an `eco-link’ corridor in 11 districts from Nellore to Srikakulam by inter-linking the Internet technology with ham radio signals. A proposal is pending with the State Government on implementing this, he said and added that their immediate vision was to reach out to at least all engineering college students from the coming academic year. It also proposes to take up two-month training classes in all districts with their coordinators taking care of the programme.

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