ATBSG13 is the special callsign issued for the 9th Asia Pacific Regional / Internet Jamboree 2013 to be held on 3 & 4 August 2013.

VU2RBI, VU2TCU, VU3KRT & VU3OWL will be operating this station from Bharat Scouts & Guides National HQ, New Delhi.

The Air-Internet Jamboree is a regional event established in 2004 in which Scouts & Guides contact each other by means of Amateur Radio and through the Internet. Having a live conversation with a fellow Scouts & Guides in some othe [...]

At last Government of Andhra Pradesh has introduced Ham Radio as one of the lesson in the 9th class English text book. Apart from this, a lesson of Disaster Management has been introduced in the same text book. It is welcoming decision that the government has taken to introduce this activities in the school subject.

Much earlier, proper stress has been given on the development of Ham Radio in the countries like United States of America, Britain & Japan and it has being used in those [...]

Hams from Hyderabad aiding rescue ops
TNN | Jun 27, 2013, 02.00 AM IST

HYDERABAD: VU2JOS is on the job. And so is VU2MCW. Two hams, amateur radio operators, are volunteering in the rescue operations in Uttarakhand. The National Institute of Amateur Radio (Niar) in the city has jumped into action to assist the administration in establishing contact at places which are difficult to access.

Jose Jacob, with call sign VU2JOS and Mukesh Kumar Gola, with call sign VU2MCW, reached the disaster-hit Ut [...]

National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR) along with M/s Dhruva Space will be organising a workshop and training on amateur radio and satellite technology.

More details about the program are available at the website http://www.spaceschool.co.in.

Participants interested to join the program are requested to register at the above mentioned website.

We are pleased to inform you that National Institute of Amateur Radio jointly with Dhruva Space and Vinoothna Geetha Media is organising Yuri’s Night (not-for-profit event), a global celebration of humanity’s past, present, and future in space.

Yuri’s Night events are held around the world each year in the month of April commemorating the day of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 and the inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Shuttle on April 12, 1981. Dhruva Space h [...]