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The JK Fox
Hunt 2007 was a VHF Fox Hunt (Amateur Radio Direction
Finding Exercise) which was organised by the Bengal Amateur
Radio Society in the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass area
(located in the eastern fringe of the city of Kolkata) on
Sunday, 18th February, 2007.
THE FOX HUNT, A LONG AWAITED EVENT, WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. This
was the 2nd Fox Hunt in Kolkata
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then known
as the Calcutta VHF Amateur Radio Society) when around 15 -
20 radio hams had participated in the event. The fox hunt in
1995 had been won by the group consisting of VU2EM, VU2KIM
(now silent key) and VU2GTG. Since then the number of active
hams had grown in Kolkata and the city hams had for long
waited for another fox hunt.
The JK fox hunt was dedicated in memory of the Late Ashok
Gooptu, VU2JK founding member and previous Vice-President of
the society and was appropriately named the JK Fox Hunt
2007. The list of the 35 radio amateurs who participated in
the JK Fox Hunt
2007 are as follows:
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Fox:
VU2DPM
Fox Hunt Coordinators:
VU2NKI & VU2HFR
Safety Coordinators:
VU2SKD, VU2EWS, VU2TIL & VU2ADM
Competitors:
TEAM 1: VU2EM, VU2MDG, VU2GTG, VU2JNB
TEAM 2: VU2GMT, VU2SZU, VU2BBE, VU3SJR
TEAM 3: VU3BIS, VU3BIV, VU2CSB, VU3RUN, VU3JFA
TEAM 4: VU3MKX, VU3MZB, VU2SKI, VU3SJD
TEAM 5: VU2SYD, VU2PBI, VU2AMB
TEAM 6: VU3ARF, VU2MDL, VU3DMS, VU3IAD
TEAM 7: VU2KFR, VU2SKC, VU2JSH
TEAM 8: VU2KUW, VU3RXJ
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The area of the hunt was a
stretch of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (area
of around 50 square Km) map of which created
using Google earth image had been distributed to
all participants. The fox den was located at a
farm house around 3 Kms from the main
road following a winding trail between acres of
paddy fields. The fox VU2DPM (Deepak) had a
Kenwood TM261A as the Fox TX along with a
plumbers delight dipole antenna around 20 feet
AGL. The TX timer wasdesigned and brewed
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The hunt
started at 0900 hours on Sunday, 18th February, 2007 with an
announcement on the VHF repeater at around 0850 hours. The
duration of the hunt was 3 hours. The Fox Frequency was
145.500 MHz nbFM (as many participants had home made XVRs
with XTALS on that frequency. The fox signal was an
unmodulated carrier (30 seconds on and 1 minute off) running
10 watts into a dipole from 0900 hrs - 1000 hrs and 5 watts
from 1000 hrs - 1200 hrs. Hunters had a tough time because
from a distance of around 1 Km from the fox den the hunters
got confused with extremely strong fox signals.
The first
team to find the fox and receive the VU2JK Winners Trophy
was the team comprising of Kitchu (VU2KFR), Joy (VU2JSH) and
Shyamal (VU2SKC) using a 3el yagi and 40dB attenuator pads.
They reached the fox at 0950 hours, 50 minutes into the
hunt. The second team comprising of VU2SYD (Sunil), VU2PBI (Prasanta)
and VU2AMB (Ananda) found the fox at 1038 hours and received
the VU2AJE Runners Trophy. Their gear consisted of a 3el
yagi, home made TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival)
handifinder and attenuator pads. The third team of VU2SZU (Zafar),
VU2GMT (Ashish) and VU2BBE (Biswajit) using a home made TDOA
handifinder reached the fox at around 1120 hours. All the
teams reached the fox den by 1200 hours. All teams travelled
in motor cars, the safety teams were on motor bikes. The
only exception was a team comprising of VU2KUW (Bappaditya)
and VU3RXJ(Kanak) who reached the fox on a cycle rickshaw
and made the hunt even more exciting. All hams found the
hunt extremely exciting and had great fun and decided to
make the fox hunt an annual event of the society.
The hunt ended with the prize distribution ceremony and a
sumptuous lunch sponsored by the society.
For More Pictures
>>Click Here |
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5th May 2005
Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle-C6, carrying India's remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-1 and
a 42.5 Kg micro satellite HAMSAT, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan
Space Centre in Sriharikota at 10.22 hrs IST and HAMSAT was inserted
to a Near Circular Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit (628 x 621 kms) at
10.41 hrs IST.
HAMSAT is a
microsatellite for providing satellite based Amateur Radio Services
to the national as well as the international community of Amateur
Radio Operators (HAMs). HAMSAT will meet the long felt need of the
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who possess the
required equipment and operate in the UHF/VHF band based
satellite radio communication. One of the transponders of
HAMSAT has been developed indigenously involving Indian HAMs, with
the expertise of ISRO and the experience of AMSAT-INDIA. The second
transponder has been developed by a Dutch
Amateur Radio Operator and Graduate
Engineering student at Higher Technical Institute, Venlo, The
Netherlands. It will stimulate technical interest and awareness
among the younger generation by providing them with an opportunity
to develop their technological projects including offering a
platform. Some of the new technologies being tested in
HAMSAT include
Integrated Processor based Electronic Bus Management Unit, Lithium
Ion Battery and Gallium Arsenide based Solar Panels.
HAMSAT gets an
OSCAR number . In the future HAMSAT will be referred to as
VUSat-OSCAR 52 or
VO-52 for short.
More details >>Click Here
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* Uplink Freq. 435.250 MHz *
Downlink Freq. 145.900 MHz * Mode CW, SSB, FM. * |
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Call Book India 2005
is out and is available now. It is nice and is also available in
CD which contains lot of useful information and good software
(freeware) like Antenna Maker, DigiPan, YPLog, EchoLink, XEarth,
SatScape, Morse Code Practice Software etc. It also contains
many projects for homebrewing. It is useful for both HAM and SWL. The presentation
of the CD is also very good . Nice work by VU2JHM,
VU2WAP,VU2BGS and Sarin Gopalan (SWL). Also thank to Indian
Institute of Hams for taking the pain of publishing the Call
Book India 2005. Those who want to collect one may contact
VU2FI or email to
indianham@yahoo.com .
Price of the Call Book India 2005 with CD is Rs. 250/- including
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After a long
wait Calcutta has its first Amateur Radio VHF repeater
VU2CVH (Club and Repeater callsign of CVARS ) Uplink 145.050
MHz and Downlink 145.650 MHz. The same has been homebrewed
by members of our society and the Duplexer cavities gifted by ARRL. It
is being installed at the top of ten storied building to get
better and greater line of sight. It has successfully
accessed by VU3SJR from Kakdeep which is more that 80
Kms. south of Calcutta. It will remain open for 24 Hrs. and will
have backup batteries to keep it on during power failure. To
access the repeater just set your VHF Handy to 145.650 MHz
with -ve Shift of 600 KHz. Enjoy Hamming.
Echo-link is
connection to the repeater everyday from 21.00 Hrs to 24.00
Hrs IST ( 15.30 to
18.30 UTC ) and on Sunday and Holidays for 24 Hrs.
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Echo-Link Node
No. for VU2CVH repeater is 231511.
All
hams are welcome to join --- JUST GIVE A CQ CALL |
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Join the Club - "Bengal Amateur
Radio Society" previously "Calcutta VHF Amateur
Radio Society" and enjoy the fantastic hobby of Ham
Radio and participate in the activities. Annual
Membership is Rs. 200/- per year admission fees Rs.
10/- only. Life membership is 3000/-
Publication "On the Air"
is free to all members.
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BARS
Club address now changed to :-
Bengal
Amateur Radio Society,
Flat No. 5F :
5th Floor,
9, Mandeville
Gardens,
Kolkata -
700019, INDIA. |
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Annual
General Meeting for BARS
will be held on Sunday 10th
September 2006 at 10.30 AM at the QTH of VU2DPM -
185, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700025. All members are
requested to attain the meeting.
Lunch will be hosted by the
Society after the meeting.
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Extra Ordinary General
Meeting of CVARS
held on Sunday 5th March 2006
at the QTH of VU2DPM - 185 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata
700026 .
In this
meeting it is approved that :-
Shortly
Calcutta VHF Amateur Radio Society
will be
known as
BENGAL AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
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Bijoya
Sammelani cum General Meeting
was held on 11th December 2005 at QTH
of VU2DPM, 185, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700026.
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Annual General Meeting of CVARS
was on Sunday 31th July 2005
at the QTH of VU2DPM.
View -
Minutes of the meeting.
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Extra Ordinary General Meeting of CVARS was on Sunday 6th
March 2005
at the QTH of VU2DPM.
View -
Minutes of the meeting.
(PDF) |
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Sagar 2006 has been completed successfully. |
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Calcutta has
first new repeater VU2CVH which is QRV on 30th
January 2005. Uplink 145.050 MHz and Downlink 145.650 MHz.
Echo-link connection is available from 21.00 Hrs IST to
23.30 Hrs IST. DTMF call for different nodes has been
activated. Echo Link Node No. for VU2CVH is
231511 |
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"On
the Air" Vol. 1, 2006, Magazine is now available
for the members. It is on the net also. We will put all
the old "ON the Air" volumes in the net shortly .
To view
Click here
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