India’s National Space Day (observed annually on August 23 to commemorate the Chandrayaan-3 lunar landing)

The official 2026 theme is “Viksit Bharat: Innovating, Collaborating and Inspiring to Global Space Leadership.”

Pune Hams (VU2RCP) in association with ADYPU & JSPM Universities have planned this celebrations on grand scale at MiT WPU Kothrud campus

The Cosmos Ham & Astronomy club MiT WPU is the host for this event

The following Activities and Demos are Planned on 22/23 August 2026

Timings: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

• What is Ham Radio? through ppt, posters & Demo
• ASOC Ham Exam and Lisencing procedure
• Yagi Antenna making
• Fox Hunt
• Receiving SSTV images from Inteenational Space station (ISS)
• HF and VHF/UHF Ham Radio operation
• UHF Repeator operation
• Home brewing
• CubeSat presentation
• APRS

We have planned above presentations & demo every 2 Hrs with 30 min break

Five Sr Hams and Five Jr Hams from VU2DYP Club with 5 SWLs from JSPM University are participating

Do not miss this Golden Opportunity!

73’s

Vilas Rabde
VU2VPR
9822502078