On the inaugural occasion of MALABAR AMATEUR RADIO & SCOUTING SOCIETY-VU2MLQ (MARSS ), VU2MLQ India’s first Radio Head Quarters for the INTERNATIONAL RADIO SCOUTING MOVEMENT & DISASTER COMMUNICATIONS, decided to operate 8T1M, A very special 8T Prefix call allotted for the first time in India by WPC Ministry of Communication & IT…
Initially this special event station will be active from the field day location KAPPAD Beach (Historical place in Calicut, Kerala State South West Cost of India) for a period of 4 days starts from 27th to 30th May 2012, later the event station will be moved to HQ
QRV from 10 through 160 meters on CW, SSB and RTTY with 2 stations simultaneously on different bands/modes.
LoTW will be available after the event.
Field Days:
8T1M – 27th to 30th May, 2012 Kappad Beach, Calicut, Kerala – South West Cost of India
8T4I – 5th to 7th May, 2017 Thanoor Beach, Malappuram, Kerala – South West Cost of India
8T4I – 20th to 24th April, 2018 Valiyaparamba Backwaters, Kasorgod, Kerala – South West Cost of India
Band Plan:
6-80M with Stations running SSB & Digital.
Station:
Radios: 1 x Kenwood TS590S
2 x ICOM IC7300
Amplifiers: 1 x Amptec LA2000
2 x FURUNO PA2500
Antennas: 1 x HEXBEAM, 1 x Vertical Dipole Array & 1 x W8AMZ G5RV
Microphones: 2 x Heil Proset HC6 & 1 x Mode Mic
Coax Cable RG 213 300m & LMR 400 200m
Logging 3 x Laptops running N1MM & RUMlog
Accessories 2 x LP100A, 1x Daiwa HP3 & 1 x Rigexpert AA-170
Operators:
VU2DJ/KD9JYD Thajudheen
VU2DP Mujeeb K
VU2WJ Shaji P. B.
VU2TAH Thahir Ummer
VU2EKJ/A65DF Jayanarayanan .E.K
VU3DKK Anees P I
VU3WEW Adersh K. Nair
VU3OPD Pramod Nambiar
VU3MFW/A45VU Prince N. S.
VU3UPZ/A75GT Vikas Vasudevan
Coordinators:
VU3SMQ Sulaiman Sulai
VU3TCP/ KF5NXL Muhammed Ashraf
VU2DR/KF5NXM Lakshmikanthan M
VU3TDH Dineshan T
