Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Mahabalipuram Lighthouse AT8LH special callsign

This year August 15th right from morning you would hear AT8LH special callsign working from Mahabalipuram on all band and modes of Amateur Radio on occation of International Lighthouse & Lightship Week(end) starting from 15th to 24th Aug 2008. We plan to work from Historical Lighthouse - which looks like temple (WLOL IND011) and much recent one WLOL IND016 with names of Mamallapuram & Mahabalipuram close to Chennai. A group of Amateur Radio Volunteers from Bangalore Amateur Radio Club - VU2ARC and Tamil Nadu have jointly put our countries First Lighthouse on Air, Equipment support from Lions Clubs International Amateur Radio Club Station VU2LCI. Team headed none other than Manohar (Arasu) VU2UR who is ARLHS First Awardee would most of the time be on CW. Our friend Gopal Madhavan, President, Amateur Radio Society of India & International Director IARU R3 has been cordially invited to be with us on the evening of 15th Aug 2008.
For receiving special QSL card do send your address label with Rs.10/- postage stamp - NOTE no envelop required as we would be sending you QSL thru Special Envelop duly stamped and Pictorial Cancellation which is a collectors item.
Details are on http://www.qrz.com/AT8LH
Friends, do dig up your log books/QSL cards and see how many LightHouse Amateur Radio Stations you have worked already and claim your ARLHS award details on http://www.arlhs.com
This event is on http://www.illw.org also look into http://www.illw.net
Do tell your Friends and Family abt International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend.
" 88's from LH " that is our callsign AT8LH
de Lion Ajoy -VU2JHM
ARLHS # 1571

PS: Email from Arasu - VU2UR
Dear friends,
This week end of 16th/17th August, will be very interesting for
those of you who hunt lighthouses. AT8LH from Mahabalipuram
Lighthouse Old(IND-011) and New (IND-016) would be activated by a
group of amateurs from BARC/LCI Please try to have a QSO and do not
engage into a rag-chew, so that AT8LH can have many QSOs, within the
short time at their disposal.
Thank you.
de arasu vu2ur
Awards Manager,Contest manager,
Monitoring Systems Coordinator of
Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI)

2 comments:

  1. Get it right. It's not the International Lighthouse/Lightship Week, it's the International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend. It's not run by the ARLHS, but by the AYR Radio Group of Scotland. And the correct URL is http://illw.net

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  2. Anonymous5:33 AM

    W8TTS is right. While there may be some awards or certificates available from ARLHS for working lighthouses it is NOT the official and original registration and home site for the ILLW (International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend) event. This is www.illw.net, and has been under the wing of the Ayr group since its inception.

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