Orissa is taking good steps towards HAM Radio activity and in this series, here is a reprint of news published in a local daily.

Mr. Naveen Patnaik launched HAM Radio stations for disaster mitigation. OSDMA - Orissa State Disaster Management Authority is the state organization responsible for managing and maintaining the facility along with help from volunteers and trained personnel.

While a number of photographs have been floating on picasa and other file sharing sites, I thought it would be a good idea to have amateur radio photographs all put up in one place for the benefit of everyone! So a new section has been introduced on VU2.IN - and we request your contributions to populate the albums with your shack pictures, your rigs and even you with your family members :) All contributions are welcome!

Here is the link for all of you to access the pictures (with an addition of 92 pictures from J Pole Construction Field Day Trip that NCR hams had in the month of Februray 2008 at Bhondsi - Haryana)

For a limited time we have placed the pictures on home page of Ham Radio India - Amateur Radio Resource(http://www.vu2.in/) website VU2.IN at the bottom of each page for you to browse and explore.

Look forward to your feedback and inputs!

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