ARSI Regional Amateur Radio Meet at Chennai

ARSI (Amateur Radio Society of India) is holding a Regional Amateur Radio Meet in Chennai. This is in line with suggestions during the AGM to hold regional meets in different parts of the country to reach out to all Radio Amateurs in different regions. All Amateur Radio Operators are invited to this meet.

Date: Sunday 12, February 2023
Agenda:
9 - 10 am Breakfast;
10 am - 12 Noon Meet & Greet
Venue: Madras Boat Club, #2, 3rd Avenue, Boat Club Road, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai - 600 028
RSVP: VU2LU-9845057731 (Whatsapp Message confirming your participation)
Club Dress Code: Formal dress - Shirt/T-shirt with collar and formal footwear.

Hoping to meet you all during this get-together.

(Ramesh Kumar VU2LU, President, ARSI)

Special Membership Drive for Amateur Radio Society of India

Amateur Radio Society of India has announced a special membership drive for VU Hams, here are the details :

Dear Hams,

Seasons Greetings from ARSI.

We are happy to announce Special Membership Drive for VU Hams to be part of National body "Amateur Radio Society Of India" , representing VU Hams nationally as well Internationaly on occasion of New Year 2020.

Offer Period : 26th January ,2020 to 30th January, 2020 ( Both days Inclusive)

Offer On : Life Membership @ Rs.4000/-

Offer : T-Shirt & Cap  of ARSI  will be provided  to the hams becoming life member during offer period.

Please visit ARSI website https://arsi.info for more details on membership and to make online payment.

Hope to see you all on board and make our national body more stronger.

ARSI is committed to work for the betterment of Hams in India .

Looking forward to welcoming you.

73

Govind Girimaji VU2GGM

Secretary

Amateur Radio Society of India

C/o Linux Learning Centre Private Limited

635, 6th Main Road, Next to Bank of India,

Hanumanthnagar, Bangalore-560019

Tel: 9448490465

VU4PB Operating frequencies

I have been requested to publish the operating frequencies for the DXpedition now underway in Port Blair and am giving them here All information is available on www.arsi.info
Online log search etc will be operational shortly.

Operating Frequencies

BAND - CW - RTTY - SSB
160 ----1824 -------- 1845
80 ------3504--3584---3695
40 ------7004--7044---7095
30 -----10104--10144-------
20 -----14024--14084--14195
17 -----18074--18104--18145
15 -----21024--21084--21295
12 -----24894--24914--24945
10 -----28024--28084--28495
6 -----50104-----------50134

Note:
-80 & 40m CW frequencies shifted due to JA Emergency nets
-On 80 & 160m listen to the operator - Up or DN splits will be used
-On 40m SSB - we will use 7140 for NA
-The following split frequencies will be followed as far as possible:
CW Split - UP 2 to 10 khz
SSB split - UP 5 to 15 khz
RTTY split - UP 2 to 10 khz
We will listen in the US Novice bands segments where required

73
Gopal VU2GMN

Talks begin on new frequency allocation plan

Published: Friday, Dec 24, 2010, 2:59 IST
By Nivedita Mookerji Place: New Delhi Agency: DNA

At a time when spectrum has assumed a different meaning altogether in the backdrop of the alleged 2G scam, industry stakeholders in the telecom and broadcasting sectors deliberated on who should be allotted what frequency band here on Thursday.

Among those crossing each others' path are Amateur Radio Society of India and state-owned All India Radio (AIR).

More at :

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_talks-begin-on-new-frequency-allocation-plan_1485355

The IARU Region 3 Newsletter

Issue 16 - November to December 2009, Released January 2010

HEADLINES

* A Word from the Chairman of IARU Region 3 - Michael Owen VK3KI
* The WIA's Centenary Celebrations
* IARU Region 3 adopts Japanese Yen as unit of currency for accounting
* WIA introduces training in Emergency Communications
* ARLHS celebrates its Tenth anniversary
* Devastating Earthquake in Haiti
* WRC-12 - Region 3 preparations
* APG 2012-3 Meeting
* Region 3 Award
* Reminder - 2012 International YL Meet in Adelaide
* Expansion of 40 Metre band

MS Word version of this newsletter is available at
http://www.iaru-r3.org/news/r3nl-10-01.doc

Acrobat PDF version is also available at
http://www.iaru-r3.org/news/r3nl-10-01.pdf

(Gopal Madhavan, ARSI)

ARSI Monitoring System Coordinator and Contests manager

VU2UR OM Arasu Manohar, who has been doing a wonderful job of MS Coordinator and Contests Manager for ARSI over the past many years has expressed a desire to give up the tasks from 1st Jan 2010. During the recent Hamfest in Bangalore it was agreed that VU2DSI Datta Deogaonkar will take up the responsibility of MS Coordinator and VU2PTT OM Prasad Rajagopal will take up the task of Contest Manager. I thank Arasu for performing these very arduous tasks very diligently for so many years and thank Datta and Prasad for readily accepting to take them up. Arasu has kindly agreed to pass on his very extensive knowledge to the new incumbents so that a smooth transition will evolve.

(Gopal VU2GMN, President ARSI Via ARSI Mailing List)

New governing council of ARSI

The following were returned unopposed at the ARSI (Amateur Radio Society of India) AGM held at Coimbatore :

1. VU2GMN Gopal Madhavan -President (CHENNAI)

2. VU2VP Ved Prakash Sandlas -Vice President ( NEW DELHI)

3. VU2KKZ K Rajaram -Secretary (BANGALORE)

4. VU2GGM Govind Girimaji -Treasurer ( BANGALORE)

5. VU2RCR R Ramachandra -GC Member ( BANGALOR)

6. VU2ETS Saravanan G -GC Member (MYSORE)

7. VU2POP Pratap Kumar -GC Member (BANGALORE)

8. VU2DPD Dipti Dey -GC Member (KOLKATTA)

9. VU2LU Ramesh Kumar K G -GC Member (BANGALORE)

10.VU2RDQ Rohit Rao GC Member ( MANGALORE)

11.VU2JAU Jayant Bhide -GC Member (GWALIOR)

OM Dipti Dey being QSL Manager is automatically on the Council and so OM Devadas K M VU2DH from Chennai, was co-opted to the council

OM TS Ganesh VU2TS continues as HRN Editor and so is also on the council

I would like to thank the outgoing members of the governing council for their contribution over the past two years and welcome the new councilors

(Gopal Madhavan, President, ARSI)

Amateur radio operators launch radio hotline to handle crises

Bangalore, D H News Service:
Most often than not, amateur radio operators have come to people's rescue during natural or manmade disasters, providing relief to those marooned during floods, earthquakes, building collapse and others. To provide this reliable mode of communication, the Amateur Radio Society of India and the Indian Red Cross Society have joined hands to establish a radio hotline here on Wednesday. It was inaugurated by Governor of Karnataka, H R Bhardwaj in the premises of the Red Cross Society here.

More at :
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/19323/amateur-radio-operators-launch-radio.html

ARSI Club Station at Red Cross Building in Bangalore

ARSI (Amateur Radio Society of India) has signed a protocol agreement with the Red Cross Society in Bangalore to work with them on emergency communications. The Club Station VU2ZH will be inaugurated by H E the Governor of Karnataka at 0900 HRS on Wednesday the 12th August 2009 at:

Indian Red Cross Society

No.26, Red Cross Bhavan, 1st Floor,

Race Course Road, Bangalore -560 001.

We request stations to stand by and give reports and maybe exchange a few words with the Governor at that time. Stations in Bangalore on the VHF repeater and HF and as many stations as possible on 7050 between 0900 and0930 from all over India. All are invited to attend the inauguration- you must be there by 0830 asthere will be security issues with the Governor attending . The station will have both HF and VHF capabilities.

The equipment consists of:
1. A Yaesu FT757 GX with power supply and accessories ( kindly donatedby OM Chandru VU2RCR)
2. A Fritzl multiband HF Vertical antenna ( kindly donated by the lateOM Robert VU2MKP)
3. A VHF base station and antenna

The station will be available to all ARSI members and a special access cardwill be issued to identify them to the security at the building. We hope that this will be the first of many such stations set up throughout India.

( Gopal Madhavan, VU2GMN , President, ARSI)

ARSI Generations in Contest 2009

Aim: This is the 3rd " Generations Contest" organised by ARSI, your national society. It is a contest for all the age groups of VU operators. You have to exchange "the year of your first Amateur licencing" with the other participants. Suppose, you might have got Grade II in 1985 and graduated to Advanced Category in 2003, you have to give 1985 for the exchange, and not 2003. This contest is open for VU QSOs only. Regular/Occasional Net controllers, Organisers of this contest, are not ELIGIBLE FOR ANY PRIZES. They may, however, take part and send their logs to help the participants.

Date and Time : The Contest takes place between 0530 Hrs IST of 28th February 2009 and 1730 Hrs IST of 01st March 2009
Modes: CW or Phone or Mixed
Categories: Single Operators take part in the following categories:
Single Band: CW or Phone or Mixed
Multi bands: CW or Phone or Mixed
Bands: All bands from 160 to 10 metres No WARC bands.

Exchange: No RS/RST is required. The year (in four figures) in which you got your first licence and continuing without a break. is the important exchange.

QSO points: The difference between 2008 and the four figure year you get in your contest QSO.
Example: If operator "A" gives you 1985 in Phone mode, then the QSO points are (2008-1985)=23. If operator "B" gives you 1995 in Phone mode, the points are 2008-1995= 13. If operator "C" gives you 1967 in Phone mode, then the points are (2008-1967)= 41.

Bonus: If a station is worked in CW, you get an incentive 5 points as bonus, in addition to the points you get, as shown in examples earlier. This is to encourage CW. Example: If operator "A" gave you 1985 in CW mode, the QSO points are (2008-1985)=23+ bonus 5=28. If operator "B" gave you 1995 in CW, then the points are (2008-1995)=13 + bonus 5=17. If operator "C" gave you 1967 in CW, then the points are (2008-1967)=41 + bonus 5=46.

Duplication:The same station cannot be worked again in any band or mode

Multipliers: None.
Compulsory: All participants must SEND logs, else their QSOs will not be accounted for. This is very much needed for cross-checking logs received.

SWLs: You can log a station only once in any mode or band and claim points, but , logging the same station again has NO QSO pointvalue. A complete QSO only, is to be reported.

Total Score: QSO points from a band or all bands, totalled together, is the Final Score
Awards: Special awards for the oldest licence holder (his amateur age) and the youngest licence holder (amateur age) would be issued. All categories carry first three place awards.
Dead Line: All contest logs are to be sent by mail, to reach VU2UR-Arasu, Contest Manager, MIG-6, 80 Feet Road, Kengeri Upanagara, Bangalore 560060 before expiry of 30 days from the last date of the contest.

Any feed back regarding this contest, may please be sent to:
gopal.madhavan@gmail.com , vu2ur@rediffmail.com
All the very best in the Contest and Good Luck.