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Indian HamRadio, Hobby Radio Lovers
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nithishsabapathi
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Manoj Prabhakar
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please contact National Institute of Amateur Radio (if you haven't already)
4 decades back I have studied for it & never attempted for its license ....
many feel that its course is rather outdated !
4 decades back I have studied for it & never attempted for its license ....
many feel that its course is rather outdated !
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DrkLord
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You need to get a license to use it legally. In fact hunting illegal ham radio users is a popular sport among ham radio enthusiasts. There are 2 kinds of licenses: general and restricted. General allows you to use both short and long range equipment and restricted allows you to use only short range equipment. So, the exam for general license is tougher(it involves morse code transmission and reception) whereas restricted license exam involves only MCQs.
Restricted license is easy enough to get, just basic electronics and communications engineering stuff with some regulations about ham radio.
Maybe you can try he exam now as it is a great hobby and also may come handy in times of natural disasters and other emergency situations.
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vink
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damm.. survival is not for cheap too..
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nithishsabapathi
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This is the website for the south india ham radio association, they assist you in getting a licence and a radio.
Manoj Prabhakar
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Thanks nithishsabapathi, applied for the exams as guided in this SIARS community, waiting for hall ticket generation !
Manoj Prabhakar
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Thanks @nithishsabapathi for letting me know about SIARS, got my license today and the call sign assigned is VU3IXJ. Looking forward to set the station and be on air soon !
ishanjain28
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congrats!
by the way, I don't know if this is interesting to you but now that you have a ham radio license, you can get a chunk of IPv4 addresses for free from AMPRnet. I'd kill to have this but then I also don't have much interest in ham radios :/. Checkout https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Requesting_a_block
by the way, I don't know if this is interesting to you but now that you have a ham radio license, you can get a chunk of IPv4 addresses for free from AMPRnet. I'd kill to have this but then I also don't have much interest in ham radios :/. Checkout https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Requesting_a_block
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shreyasubale
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In bangalore, there is a very active ham radio group . They provide ham radio classes ( mostly old folks doing in their free time ) super friendly, please let me know if you want details !
Manoj Prabhakar
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I knew him,
His name is SATHYAPAL, (VU2FI) and a few ppls, Recently We Came in Air through Echolink
Manoj Prabhakar
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Jus casual info about weather, location, technology (restricted to transmit business ideas, politics, obscene things, terrorism, media)
The main motive of this form of communication is to convey information during emergency situation (when internet or mobile is out) and disaster management
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