<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Radio ham in Golden Book of World Records</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The New Indian Express reports that radio amateur <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Sanil Deep VU3SIO</strong>has been Controller of the BC-DX Net, aimed at shortwave broadcast station dxers, since 1990. The net meets every Sunday on 7085 kHz <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The newspaper report says: <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">M Sanil Deep, a retired bank officer from Kozhikode, has entered the Golden Book of World Records for operating ‘longest running broadcast BC-DX NET on amateur radio’.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Sanil Deep has been broadcasting the programme on amateur radio as NET controller, with the individual call sign VU3 SIO, for more than 30 years. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The programme, which started on November 27, 1988, is broadcasted every Sunday from 8.30 am to 9.15 am and disseminates information regarding the timing, frequency, language and programme details of radio stations across the globe. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">It was in 1988 that Sanil along with his friends Shanmugha Sundaram, Jose Jacob, Victor Gonnetilaka and Kolliyot Anil started the HAM network.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">It was taken over by Sanil in 1990 after he got the Indian licence to operate the ham radio. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"></em><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the full story at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2019/jul/15/kozhikode-man-enters-golden-book-of-world-records-for-operating-longest-running-broadcast-on-amateur-2003890.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.newindianexpress<br style="box-sizing:border-box">.com/states/kerala/2019/jul/15/kozhikode-man-enters-golden-book-of-world-records-for-operating-longest-running-broadcast-on-amateur-2003890.html</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The BC DX NET was formed to help keen Short Wave Listeners who listen to long distance broadcasting stations from various countries in different languages. The net takes place every Sunday on 7085 kHz at 0300 GMT (0830 IST) <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://malabarhammeet.org/bc-dx-net/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://malabarhammeet.org/bc-dx-net/</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>