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    EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

    Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes
    BY CQ STAFF

    This month, we turn the keyboard over to S. Ram Mohan, VU2MYH, of India’s National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR) with a report on the ways in which hams have been assisting with the Indian government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. –W2VU

    During the last week of March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented lockdown of 1.3 billion people in India. The city of Bengaluru — the country’s IT hub — was no exception. The Government of Karnataka, the state in which Bengaluru is situated, set up a “COVID-19 war room” in the Chief Minister’s office to

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