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Dark clouds and silver linings

Today I heard about a grand wedding of an Indian tycoon (Ambani's son) from a friend of mine, and he showed me some videos of it too. He said famous and powerful people from around the world have been invited to it, and the cost of the event was going to be several Billions (of Indian Rupees or USD, I don't know). If you think about it, India is a country with a higher population of substandard living conditions. There are innocent and miserable children who are forced to work for a mere subsistence, being deprived of education, health facilities, and food and water. I remember a movie based on a true story in which Akshey Kumar was playing the leading role where he makes sanitary towels (pads) for poor women who could not afford it. In such a country, a single wedding event spends billions of money. What a crappy world we are living! You could imagine how much wealth this family has amassed. On the other, this "mental disease" of exorbitant spending must be highly we

A Band Plan for Amateur Radio in Sri Lanka

Because Sri Lanka does not have an explicit band plan for amateur radio (HAM) communication within Sri Lanka, I thought of drafting one based on the latest (model) band plan prepared by the IARU (International Amateur Radio Union) for the ITU/IARU Region 3, where Sri Lanka is situated in.

Each country has the absolute responsibility and authority to decide on the frequencies, upper and lower limits of the ham bands, and the classes of emission allowed in specific bands. Therefore, the band plan presented here is not an exact replica of the IARU's band plan, but an adapted one that conforms both to the regulations in Sri Lanka and to the IARU's model plan.

The following band plan is in high resolution. You may use and print it out for personal purposes, but no alteration thereof is permitted.You can send me your feedback on this.




Note: Due to some mis-presentation of the frequency tables both on the government gazette notification as well as on the TRC website, the previous graphic I had designed was faulty, and was removed therefore. This new graphic attached above is the correct one.