[Chapter-delegates] HAM or Amateur Radio Licence

[Satish Babu]

Here's some information on the Indian context:

1. Ham radio ("Amateur radio") is active, but is confined to a set of
passionate users. The main entry barrier is an exam conducted by the
Ministry of Communications, which based on things like radio and CW (Morse
code).

2. Hams are active and useful during disaster situations when mobile and
landline networks are knocked out. For instance, they have been useful in
the recent Nepal earthquake for Nepali migrant labour (who work in
different parts of India) to get news about their families/villages back in
Nepal, after telephone networks were inaccessible from India.

3. Community Radio has seen resurgence in the last few years after a new
policy framework for low-power transmitters was announced. Community radio,
coupled with call-ins using mobile allows for interactive communication.
However, the coverage of this technology is limited.

4. Another area that has seen recent activity is mesh networking based on
various wireless technologies. See an example at http://airjaldi.com

The above information is from secondary sources. My only direct exposure
has been after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, where some of us were
involved in a narrowcast radio initiatve (ie., content created daily as an
ogg file, and played back through loudspeakers in village squares).





satish



On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am in the midst of researching how  HAM/Amateur  Radio  can provide
> local solutions for  the last mile with  Internet  Access. I am curious if
> any chapter have working on such projects
>
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