AC5PN 1960 Bhutan

For a QSO with VU2XG (now G8VG) on 29 October 1960. The picture is of the Royal Family of Bhutan with their guests, the Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

AC5PN, N.Chhawna was the first Bhutanese to go on the air in 1955. He was followed 7 years later by a group sponsored by the "Amateur Radio Society of India". The April 1962 VU2US/AC5 team was recruited from licensed army operators from India stationed close to the border. The operators were Lt. General K. Umaro Singh VU2US, Brigadier Ram Z. Kabraji VU2BK, Colonel P. S. Gill VU2PS, and Captain T. A. "Ram" Ramakrishan VU2TN.

AC5PN was also instrumental in helping Gus Browning W4BPD get operating permission for his Bhutan DXpeditions.

G4UZN Collection