Amateur Ham radio held sky watching program on Baner hill
Pune Hams VU2RCP participated in ARSI’s Hill topping and national field day
Amateur Ham Radio holders in Pune (Hill Topping) had organized a radio message exchange from a high hill and ‘Akash Darshan’ (sky watching) program on 12, 13 March 2022 at Tukai Mandir Hill in Baner, Pune at the Grid location of MK68VN.
A night ‘Sky Watching Program’ was also organized on 12 March. Amateur radio license holders from Pune as well as foreign hams participated in this initiative. The ham congregation held all types of radio messaging with different types of antennas.
IETE Pune local centre was main sponsorer for this practical event. Pune Hams & participants installed G5RV HF all band Antenna and X 30R from Diamond for VHF & UHF across the temple peak and successfully held HF communication.
In this exercise, the E&TC students from Moze Engineering College and the professors actively participated and learned basics of Ham Radio and various types of Antennas.
VU2MSB OM Milind demonstrated various parameters of Yagi on Antenna analyzer. Students enjoyed, learned and understood this practical through Antenna Analyzer this hands-on activityMobile phone is a kind of Radio and India is second largest consumer in the world. However, India do not produce anything, even plastic cover of the mobile phone. To improve this situation Pune Hams viz Mangesh VU2OOM, Milind VU2MSB & Vilas VU2VPR decided to focus on E&TC students.
In the evening Star Party was organized and most of the participants witnessed the Moon through Telescope. The team also did interactions with artificial satellites and NASA space stations and various radio science experiments. “It’s a national Actually Radio was invented by Sir JC Bose {Not Marconi} but no one took this invention further. Sadly, all R&D and research took place in Europe and USA,” said Vilas Rabde VU2VPR.
