When all
communication networks are down, Ham plays a significant role in disseminating
information. On the orders of the DGP, a 10-member team of National Institute
of Amateur Radio (NIAR), led by its founder and chief advisor S. Suri, arrived
here on Wednesday.
A man from Naglonda is
desperate to find out the safety of his brother staying at Vijayanagar Palace
layout in the Hudhud-battered Visakhapatnam.
A colonel is living at PM
Palem and his son in Kerala is frenetic to know how he is.
At Padmanabham near
Bhimili that suffered badly in the cyclone there is no power or water.
These are pieces of
information tricking in from a few Ham (amateur) radio operators that are
working in the cyclone-affected areas of Visakhapatnam and received at the
Control Room set up at the Police Commissioner’s Office. Ham has significant
role to play when communication networks are down.
On the orders of the DGP,
a 10-member team of National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR), led by its
founder and chief advisor S. Suri, arrived here on Wednesday.
“We came here in five
teams with five high frequency sets and six very high frequency and ultra high
frequency sets. On contacting DCP M. Srinivas and SP (Communications) Surya
Rao, we have been told to go to four places to improve police communications as
the load on their devices is heavy,” says Yamini, a celebrity Ham operator and
an entrepreneur who took keen interest in amateur radio right from her junior
college days. Over the last few years she emerged a leader participating in
international conferences. She has to her credit the distinction of
representing Asia in a 12-member team from all over the world in an
experimental Ham operation on Isla del Coco, an uninhabited island in Costa
Rica, braving risks and obstacles.
She has been
participating in Ham operations in all the cyclones and floods since 2006, she
says.
She has not studied
communication engineering but pursued it with intense interest even using
earth-moon-earth communication process.
Easy to operate
That Ham radio is easy to
operate by even students is illustrated by Tom K Jose from Hyderabad, now in
junior intermediate. With his father working in NIAR, he took quite early to
the operation and Hudhud is his first operational exposure.
COMES IN HANDY
Ten members from National
Institute of Amateur Radio arrive
They are equipped with
high-frequency sets
(Reproduced from The Hindu 17-10-2014)
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