ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores ajudam nas eleições no estado indiano de Kerala

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Election updates via Ham Radio

The *New Indian Express* reports on amateur radio involvement in local
elections in Kerala state

The newspaper says:

There won’t be any difficulty in getting the election updates from
Edamalakkudy grama panchayat, the most remote polling station in the
district, as a 30-member group led by a ham radio and disaster management
society would transmit the poll news for the government as well as the
district administration.

For the same, a central control room has been opened at Vazhathoppu, said
its custodian Manoj Galaxy and vice president P L Nizamuddin.
The ham radio would definitely help coordinate the election works in
Edamalakkudy which lacks any information and communication facility.
It was with the help of the ham radio that the news from the first tribal
panchayat was gathered by the district administration and the media when it
went to polls for the first time in 2010.  The ham radio had also helped
the election officials to contact their family members when they were
inside the forest areas for election duty.

Last time, when wild elephants attacked the election officials who were
trapped inside the forests with polling equipment, it was from the control
room set up at the Collectorate that the then collector contacted the
officials and gave directions.  For the same, the ham radio workers were
presented with awards. The wireless repeater station for Edamalakkudy
election would be set up at the grassland near Vettimudi. The equipment
would be dug in land and the antennae would be installed on trees taking
into consideration the presence of wild animals.

>From the thirteen polling stations, the information would be transmitted
through repeater to the collectorate and Devikulam RDO office. Hence the
Collector would be able to communicate with the polling officers in
Edamalakkudy in any situation.

Read the full story at
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/Get-Poll-News-Live-on-Ham-Radio-From-Edamalakkudy/2015/10/22/article3091561.ece
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