Antenna Work-shop :

"Antenna Work-shop" under the leadership of VU2NP,Dossuji, at Ahmednagar on 26th & 27th of May, 2012.

Venue- Govt Polytechnic, Ahmednagar.

All participants will present ideas about differant types of antenna.All are requested to present a model of their favorite antenna with PPT. All Vu's are requested to send articles on antennas.The articles will be included in the "ANTENNA BOOKLET" 

Please contact VU2NP or VU2DSI (Ahmednagar co-ordinator) for registering your name.

VU2NP-dossu@paymasterfirm.com Cell-09930987230

VU2DSI-datta_anr@dataone.in Cell-9422083073 

My QSL Cards Collection V :

HAM Fair 2012 :

The world Amateur Radio Day is celebrated every year on 18th April to commemorate the formation of International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) on this day in 1925 at Paris. The QARL (The Quilon Amateur Radio League) celebrates the event every year on 18th April or the nearest Sunday by conducting Ham fair. This year the programme will be held on Sunday, the 22nd April.

The formation of QARL HEART (Ham Emergency And Rescue Team) will be announced on 18th April, 2012.

A special issue of 'QARL News' will also be published on this occasion. You are requested to contribute articles and advertisements well in advance.

visit www.vu2qar.com

Courtesy : OM Rajesh, VU2IDB

News From AT2DW IOTA AS-175 :

The AT2DW team on Bet Shankhodhar Island (IOTA AS-175) has over 4000 QSOs and should have their amp running by now. The amp could not be used earlier due to school children camping close to the vertical antennas who have now departed and the team did not want to risk any accident. The amp will hopefully help them to work the more distant areas especially NA. They will be actively looking for more QSOs to NA and SA when openings are noted to give this new one to IOTA chasers there.

The team has been active on all bands 80m through 10m and logs are being uploaded to Club Log whenever a reliable Internet connection is available. See  http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=AT2DW for the searchable log, statistics and other log information.

The expedition website is at  http://www.dxcoffee.com/at2dw/ 

Courtesy : OM Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT (ex-AF6DV)

Bet Dwarka Dxpedition AS-175 :

The island of Bet Dwarka (Bet Shankhodhar) will be activated in the period 16th-23th March 2012.

This island falls under the Iota Gujarat state west group - No.: AS-175 and has never been activated before. Bet Dwarka Island, also known as Bet Shankhodhar, is situated in the Gulf of Kutch. The island has a temple dedicated to Lord Krishna. Early historic settlement remains have been located on the island which may be dated back to 3rd century BC on the basis of a potsherd inscribed with 'Nandakasa' in the Mauryan Brahmi script.

A special call sign "AT2DW" has been allotted by the WPC.