Some facts related to ham radio ham in India -Amarendra Chandra
Gooptu (received his licence in 1921, Call-sign VU2JK) India's
first public broadcasting station belonged to -a ham Dr.
Metcalfe (Call-sign VU2KH). He was the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore
University. He and his group of hams established an
entertainment public broadcasting station VU6AH in 1935. Amateur
Radio licences were withdrawn in India in- -1939 when the World
war II started and ham equipments were sealed by the
authorities. ham radio club of India is - Amateur Radio Club of
India (ARCI). Major B.M. Chakravarthy, VU2BU founded this club
on May 15, 1948 in the School of Signals, Mhow. Radio Society of
India (ARSI) was born -On May 15, 1954, at New Delhi. Federation
of Amateur Radio Society of India (FARSI) was founded in Ham
Radio Station established by the Governement of India's
Department of Science and Technology with an aim to popularize
ham radio is -VU2NCT. It became operational in 1991. Do you know
by the begining of 1948, there were har