AT8BRS On Air From G-Plot On 16th Of The Instant

RIG: Yaesu FT891

External Antenna:End Feed Long Wire 

Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri,NL56hi

Latitude: 26° 20' 31" N

Longitude:090° 39' 34" E

Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)

(For All Monitoring Activites)

Monitor's QSD(HI HI) Notes:

All time mentioned  in Indian Standard Time(ist) & all reports scale as per RST scale parameters(with human touch on some cases)

> indicating onwards ,amateur station's location mentioned as per info available in QRZ.COM & as heard on air etc in first bracket after callsign as far as possible followed by Signal Report in RST scale plus report by ear(in RST Scale), ? sign has been put on info with doubt, some additional information &  plus monitoring observations may be added

There may be some errors here & there in reporting time & callsigns etc, I hope it will be taken in amateur spirits.I am working on consistently in improving my reports & posts. 

Date:16/04/26

Reception Report No:1

7140kHz lsb

0748ist>S21RW (Khulna) S9 QSB slight, AT8BRS* (PO Gobardhanpur Island,  West Bengal ) operated by VU2AES S7 QSB, at 0751ist breaking call of VU2DLU heard, 

0751ist>VU2DLU (New Barrackpore, Kolkata) S7, S21RW S9 QSB slight, AT8BRS operated by VU2AES S7 QSB, 

0801ist>VU2DLU S7 , AT8BRS operated by VU2AES S5-S7, both stations noted with QSB , VU2DLU went QRX around 0805ist approx. 

0805-0809ist:

S21RW S9 QSB, AT8BRS operated by VU2AES S7 QSB 

7145kHz lsb

0821ist: 

S21RW S9, AT8BRS operated by VU2AES S5 QSB 

*AT8BRS is a special callsign amateur radio station, operated by amateurs of Bengal Amateur Radio Society (BARS), Kolkata to mark activation of Gobardhanpur Island (Island On The Air-IOTA)on the occasion of World Amateur Radio Day (on 18th April) effective during April 15-19th of 2026.

As per post on social media platforms , AT8BRS is going to be  active on SSB/FT8 on 40/20/15/10 mb amateur bands.

The QRZ.COM  page is 

https://www.qrz.com/db/AT8BRS

What I found by searching the net, some interesting information  ...

G-Plot and Gobardhanpur is referred to as the same location.Gobardhanpur is a village located in G-Plot Island.It is situated near  the confluence of the Hooghly River &  Bay Of Bengal (in the Sundarban Delta,).It is famous for approximately 15km long beach plus  its dense Jhaubon  (casuarina) forest & red crabs.

More detail information about Gobardhanpur on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobardhanpur

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More reports/observations plus more amateur radio related news etc soon.

73 

DE VU3WTI (Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK) 

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)