Ham Operators organise Field Day Program at Gaya

The ‘Society of Radio Amateurs’ supported by ‘Indian Wave of Amateur Radio’ organised a Field Day program in Gaya for Ham Operators on the 24^th and 25^th December, 2020 at the Samrat Hotel. A special Call Sign AT8GFD has been allotted by Ministry of Communications GOI for the event. 25 operators from Bihar and Bengal are attending the meet.

We are contacting other Ham Operators all over the world on various allotted Ham frequencies to test our preparedness for Emergency Communication at any place and time. The Ham operators will work day and night for 30 hours at a stretch and try to contact various other operators said Sumita Sahi who is President of SORA.

Bihar has over 100 licensed operators out of which 30 operators are attending GAYA FIELD DAY. Society of Radio Amateurs promotes Ham Radio in Bihar and has been organising such events regularly in the past 5 years said Rajiv Ranjan who is the Secretary of SORA.

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of radio frequencies for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radio sport, contesting, and emergency communication. The term “amateur” is used to specify “a duly authorised person interested in radioelectric practice with a purely personal aim and without pecuniary interest (either direct monetary or other similar reward) and to differentiate it from commercial broadcasting, public safety (such as police and fire), or professional two way radio services (such as maritime, aviation, taxis, etc.).

The amateur radio service (amateur service and amateur satellite service) is established by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) through the Radio Regulations. National governments regulate technical and operational characteristics of transmissions and issue individual station licenses with a unique identifying call sign, which must be used in all transmissions. Amateur Operators must hold an amateur radio license which is obtained by passing a government test demonstrating adequate technical radio knowledge and legal knowledge of the host government’s radio regulations.

Radio amateurs are limited to the use of small frequency bands, the amateur radio bands, allocated throughout the radio spectrum, but within these bands are allowed to transmit on any frequency using a variety of voice, text, image, and data communications modes. This enables communication across a city, region, country, continent, the world, or even into space. In many countries, amateur radio operators may also send, receive, or relay radio communications between computers or transceivers connected to secure virtual private networks on the Internet.

Amateur radio is officially represented and coordinated by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), which is organized in three regions and has as its members the national amateur radio societies which exist in most countries. According to an estimate made in 2011 by the American Radio Relay League, two million people throughout the world are regularly involved with amateur radio. About 830,000 amateur radio stations are located in IARU Region 2 (the Americas) followed by IARU Region 3 (South and East Asia and the Pacific Ocean) with about 750,000 stations. A significantly smaller number, about 400,000, are located in IARU Region 1 (Europe, Middle East, CIS, Africa).