Pune Hams VU2RCP celebrated World television day 2022 with IEI PLC, IETE Pune & Tech Forum at Firodia Auditorium
This year’s theme was
“Recognizing the influence television has had on decision-making by drawing attention to conflicts, dangers, peace, and security”.
The session started with interaction over a cup of hot tea and snacks in the chilly weather of Pune. After getting some warmth Mr. Anil Chaitanya started the session with providing a background about the session’s speaker, the great Head, Electronics Division (Satellite Systems), Space Science and Technology Center, Thiruvananthapuram, Project Manager, (Electronics and TV Hardware); Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), SAC, Ahmedabad Project Director; INSAT 1 Space Segment Project, Bangalore Mission Director, ISRO Payload Scientist Mission Director; Space Applications Center (SAC), Ahmedabad Director; Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram Mr. Pramod Kale.
After that a nostalgic presentation was given by Mr. Pramod Kale on the history of Television, and its introduction in our country, India. This day is quite special for Mr. Pramod Kale as his daughter was also born on this day. This very day in 1963, the first Sound Rocket, Nike Apache, was launched from Thumba site in Kerala, which was just a starting point for India with bare minimum facilities.
In his presentation he showed the progress made by Television since the early 1930s till today. This was quite Nostalgic for many people. He shared the interesting stories about how satellite broadcasting was made available in India, the challenges and solutions provided by we Indians, deployment of television with Satellite dishes in remote parts of India etc.
He also shared a quite interesting story about the T.V. Tower at Sinhagad Fort. It was initially installed to retransmit the signals from Mumbai station to Pune Area, by getting feeds from Mumbai Station. But during summer time and propagation it started to retransmit the signals from Karachi T.V. Station, which caused lots of trouble for authorities in India.
In the end the presentation ended with a Question-and-answer session by the audience.
Audiences asked question regarding his vision for T.V. in 2030, dangers of using microwave communication and it offered security lapse and danger to country during Mumbai terrorist attack.
Mr. Sarolkar proposed a vote of thanks and professor A.N. Gedam honoured our insightful and knowledgeable speaker Mr. Pramod Kale with a token of love. With this the session was concluded and everyone had nice interaction afterwards
Television had started as an entertainment medium more than seventy years ago. It became an important medium once space communication based international services started. In our country the growth and spread of television was taken up when it was recognized as an important medium for education and instruction
