ARLA/CLUSTER: Segundo a BBC as transmissões em ondas curtas são um dos meios mais eficazes de lutar contra "blackout" informativo em Caxemira

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The 'Amateur' tech that could penetrate the Kashmir blackout

The Wire reports shortwave radio transmission presents an effective
way to communicate when conventional networks are down

On August 15, AFP reported that the BBC plans to expand its shortwave
radio coverage in Kashmir “to ease the impact of a communications
blackout imposed by the Centre”. The report added that “short wave
transmissions travel thousands of miles and are able to bounce over
mountains that dominate the region.”

In his extensive article Vasudevan Mukunth @1amnerd notes the ability
of shortwave amateur radio to provide emergency communications in the
event of a disaster, he says:

More recently, Ambarish Nag Biswas, founder of the West Bengal Radio
Club, told The Telegraph in July this year that he and his team
“provide emergency communications and assist the administration during
Gangasagar Mela” (in Kolkata), and have thus far “reunited 2,500
people with their families”.

In India, the Ministry of Communications issues the amateur radio
operator license following an examination. In 2008, The Tribune
reported that there were 16,000 licensed operators in the country.
Some prominent operators include the late Rajiv Gandhi (callsign:
VU2RG) and Amitabh Bachchan (VU2AMY). The country’s first shortwave
public broadcasting station was set up by E.P. Metcalfe, the
vice-chancellor of Mysore University, in 1935.

Read the article at
https://thewire.in/the-sciences/kashmir-valley-article-370-shortwave-radio