Ham Radio Workshop organised by Vigyan Prasar at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG), from October 8 to10,1999 on the occasion of the IIT Guwahati's annual technical festival-"TECHNICHE-99"

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Sandeep Baruah (VU2MSY), Scientific Officer, Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi, operating the field day ham radio station at IIT, Guwahati. Standing just left to him is Sri Ranjit Chaliha, VU2RCH. All these equipment were homebrewed by Sri Chaliha himself.

It may be mentioned that the WPC (Amateur Section) of the Ministry of Communications, New Delhi denied permission to shift the Vigyan Prasar & NCSTC station VU2NCT to Guwahati! Instead, we had the luck to obtain  a permission to shift the ham radio equipment of Sri Ranjit Chaliha, VU2RCH. It may be noted that his station is located some 200 kms away from  Guwahati. Sri Chaliha, VU2RCH, came all the way from Nagaon (His hometown) to support our noble cause and carried the ham radio equipment (all made by himself) to the IITG campus.Sri Chaliha, VU2RCH,  a self made expert in this field coordinated the Vigyan Prasar effort to popularize ham radio by representing the VU2NCT station (our banner itself depicts this!).

An informal discussion during the ham radio workshop at IIT, Guwahati (IITG).

Standing from left to right:
Dr. Narender K. Sehgal (VU3NKS), Head of the National Council for Science & Technology Communication and Director, Vigyan Prasar;
Sri Ranjit Chaliha (VU2RCH),
a self made expert in ham radio;
Sri P.M. Dastidar, an ex-professor of Cotton College (Guwahati) and now the Director, Assam Police Radio Organisation;
Sri Debajit Sarma (VU2DBM), an Electronics Engineer with Assam Electronics Development Corporation Ltd.(AMTRON);
Dr. Anup Kr. Gogoi, Assoc. Professor, Deptt. of Electronics & Communication, IITG.
Sri Sandeep Baruah (VU2MSY), Scientific Officer, Vigyan Prasar

Sri Sandeep Baruah (VU2MSY),
Scientific Officer, Vigyan Prasar,
showing the participants the operation
of a ham radio communication system

 
A Young Lady from the Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, taking the opportunity to talk to a veteran ham in Calcutta, Sri Amalendu Piplai (VU2AP), who was on-line at that moment.
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Ham Radio Workshop organised by Vigyan Prasar (an autonomous organisation under the Department of Science & Technology), New Delhi  at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG)

A ham radio workshop and demonstration programme was organised by Vigyan Prasar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG), from October 8 to 10, 1999. It was attended by 120 participants from different engineering colleges across the country. The distinguished guests present in the programme were Dr. Narender K. Sehgal (VU3NKS), Director, Vigyan Prasar and also the Head of the National Council for Science & Technology Communication, New Delhi, Sri J.M. Misra, Chief General Manager, Telecom (Assam Circle), Sri D.N. Buragohain, Director, IITG, Dr. Anil Mahanta, Head of the Deptt., Electronics & Communication, IITG, and Dr. Anup Kr. Gogoi, Assoc. Prof., Electronics & Communication, IITG.
Sri Amalendu Piplai (VU2AP), a veteran ham from Calcutta responded to a general radio call given from the homemade radio station of Sri Ranjit Chaliha (VU2RCH), who had represented the VU2NCT Club Station of Vigyan Prasar and NCSTC. Sri Piplai (VU2AP) enlightened the participants with his on-the-air lecture on ham radio. Sri Sandeep Baruah (VU2MSY), Scientific Officer, Vigyan Prasar, also delivered a lecture apprising the participants about the different exciting aspects of ham radio. It was followed by a lecture on "Technology and Indians" delivered by Dr. Sehgal, Director, Vigyan Prasar. Sri P.M. Dastidar, Director, Assam Police Radio Organisation (APRO), in a lecture stressed the promotion of ham radio in the North Eastern part of India citing its importance in the event of frequent natural calamities taking place in this region. There was a keen interaction between the participants and the organisers in the interactive session where many queries related to ham radio were answered by Sri Debajit Sarma (VU2DBM). A practice session apprised the participants of the ham radio communication procedures along with an on-the-air demonstration of Morse Code communication given by Sri D.P.Dey (VU2DPD) from Calcutta. A laboratory session for transmitter design was also conducted at the basic electronics laboratory of IITG where 'study materials' and booklets on ham radio ("Be a Ham! Talk to the World") published by Vigyan Prasar were distributed freely among the participants. A book ("Scanning the World with Amateur Radio") written and compiled by Sri Sandeep Baruah (VU2MSY), Scientific Officer, Vigyan Prasar, was also distributed freely to all the participants. The Vigyan Prasar venture was very satisfying in the sense that all the participants were greatly motivated towards this noble scientific pursuit.