The Student Satellite Club Report

The Student Satellite club, Parikrama in collaboration with Goa Radio Amateur Society (GRAS) organized a hands on workshop on Ground station development and HAM radio. The workshop was held on March 7 ,2020 at the Don Bosco College of Engineering campus at Fatorda, Goa. This event was open only for student satellite club members. Prof. Mohini Naik, Principal Investigator & Prof. Sweta Morajkar, CO-PI were the faculty coordinators for the workshop.

The resource persons for the workshop was a 4 member team from Goa Radio Amateur Society (GRAS). Mr. Amey Pandit, Embedded system design engineer & HAM radio operator with call sign VU2YQ, Mr. Mahindra Kannavar, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineer and HAM radio operator (VU2ZMK), Mr. Flavio Raposo is a retired Chemistry Professor from Don Bosco Panjim & HAM radio operator (VU2WPR) and Mr. Vishal Naik, HAM radio operator (VU3BBH)

The main objective of this workshop was to give the students a hands-on experience to receive the satellite data using Software defined radio (SDR).

Mr. Amey Pandit took over the session by showing HAM radio video and its importance. He also explained how to become a HAM radio operator. He also explained the radio Trans receiver     designed by the team to transmit/receive the signal to the satellite. In the next session, Mr. Mahindra Kannavar, gave a demonstration on walkie talkie phones and explained the difference between HAM & walkie talkie phones.

Mr. Flavio Raposo & Mr. Vishal Naik both being the HAM radio operator gave a brief demo on software defined radio and signal reception using SDR.Mr.Amey Pandit, showed the Q 10 Satellite reception using simple dish tv antenna.

The last session of the day was wrapped up by taking the feedback of the participants. Vote of thanks was delivered by Project Manager Ms. Krupashri Koli. As a token of appreciation, mementos were handed over to Mr. Amey Pandit, Mr. Mahindra Kannavar, Mr. Flavio Raposo & Mr. Vishal Naik from Team Goa Radio Amateur Society (GRAS) by, Prof. Mohini Naik.  The entire workshop received motivation from Director- Rev. Fr. Kinley D’Cruz, Principal – Dr. Neena Panandikar & Head of ETC Department- Dr. Varsha Turkar.