Dear friend,
Ham radio is one of the popular hobby approved by UN and pursued by millions around the world. A ham radio is infact a wireless transciever operating at certain allowed frequencies. Through it you can make friends around globe and even to astronauts wirelessly, free of cost! Or for those guys who are intersted in making radio circuits it provides a good platform to test their devices. In India, for a ham radio one needs to obtain a license from Wireless Planning Commission(WPC) of India by passing the ASOC(Amateur Station Operator's Certificate) exam.

Kottayam Amateur Radio Club is conducting a workshop for people who are interested in Ham radio. It starts on January 17th,2009 and classess will be held on all sundays from 2PM to 5PM. The programme is 8 weeks long. Fees is approximately INR1200/-(an advance of INR 600 needs to be paid on 17 january, rest later).The fees include exam fee also. It will be a preparatory class for those who like to appear for the ASOC(Amateur Station Operators Certificate examination) exam. It covers the entire syllabus for the ASOC exam. Topics covered include basic electronics, radio circuits and their operation, types of receivers and transmitters, International radio regulations, Indian Wireless and telegraph act of 1976, how to operate ham radio?, responding to distress calls, natural calamities and may day calls, the morse code( it is a bit difficult to learn) and all othe things relevant about ham radio.
Those who are interested may please contact in the following phone numbers-

(a) Naduvettam Sathyasheelan - +919447111318
(b)+919744244086
(c)+919895010191

A special note-

Now we are having many repeater station around kerala and because of this we can talk all over India in Ham radio even at a low power. In pathanamthitta a repeater is placed at Mount Zion College of Engineering. So this is a best oppurtunity for people around Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Kottayam to make freinds in Tamil nadu, Karnataka etc... utilise the oppurtunity. Visit www.vu2dfd.com for further details about this repeater.

See the attatchment for more deatils about ham radio

Thank you,
SREEKESH S
+919495355950
another HAM from VU land