BCDX Net celebrates 17th anniversary

On Sunday, November 27, 2005 the BCDX Net celebrated its 17th anniversary. It was controlled as usual by Mr.Sanil, VU3SIO, from Kozhikode on 7085 kHz LSB on the 40 Meter band at 8.30 am IST (0300 UTC).

Several stations from South India checked into the net on this special occasion and conveyed their felicitations. Sanil and others gave information on their latest catches of the past week which has become a very routine affair now.

This net on the Amateur Radio Band was started exactly 17 years back on November 27 in 1988 by the following Hams viz. Mr.Shanmughasundaram VU2FOT, Mr. Victor Goonetilleke 4S7VK and yours truely, Jose Jacob, VU2JOS. We used to meet regularily at various times on the band to exchange BC DX news. This later transformed into a regular net.

The unique thing about this net is that it has helped Hams to become BC Dxers and BC Dxers to become Hams! The net is conducted on Sundays at 0300 to 0330 UTC (8.30 to 9.00 am IST) on 7085 kHz in the 40 meters to exchange BC DX News by Hams who are also BC DXers and covers South India/ Sri Lanka/ Maldives. The net controllers nowadays are Mr.Sanil VU3SIO and Mr. Neel VU3BGK etc.

Good luck to BCDX Net!