Amateur Radio Licence

Here is the timeline of my amateur radio license application and further milestones.

2010 December: Wrote General Grade Exam at Bangalore (Little Elly School)
2011 January: Gave the Morse Code Test (Did not clear the receive part)

[Goes to cold again]

2013 November: Joined IIH and attended classes (Only the regulations)
2014 January: Wrote Restricted Grade Exam at IIH Bangalore (25/1/2014)
2014 April: Results declared (11/4/2014) +76days
2014 July: Got a call from the Police Station for the verification (17/7/2014) +97days
2014 Sep: Got the letter from WPC notifying grant of licence and payment of fees (01/09/2014) +46days
2014 Sep: Got a letter from WPC stating that the attestion has deficiencies - Attesting officer's Name, Designation and place of posting should be mentioned. (26/09/2014)
2014 Oct: Re-sent the attested copy for age proof (08/10/2014)
2014 Nov: Called WPC Delhi to inquire the status. Told that the license is under approval and it would be sent in a week's time. (13/11/2014)
2014 Nov: Got the license by speedpost (28/11/2014)

Took 307 days from the day of writing exam.

How to add Point of Interests (POI) to Nokia Lumia device

All Nokia Lumia comes with Here maps that work offline. You can download the maps available for any region worldwide. "Here" maps allow to search for locations and is fairly accurate. But many times, the places may not turn up in the results, especially remote getaway places. You found the place in Google map but how do you store the location in your Nokia Lumia?

Here is a way to do it.

• Login to here.com from desktop and choose Collections. Here you can add locations that get sync'd up with your Nokia Lumia. (In the Here application in phone, login using the same id)
• Any arbitrary location on the map can be right clicked and "Collected" (Right click and choose "Collect this location"
• If you need to add a point from Google maps, copy the location (lat, lon) from google and paste in the search box of here maps and the location will be pin pointed.
  (for copying the lat/lon, enable the "Drop Lat/Lon" tool from the Beta labs in Google Maps).
• Organize the newly added location to collection/folders. The new locations will be sync'd up with the phone in no time.

Moto G Dual Sim Error

I had this Moto G for couple of months now and only one sim were used till now. I got a new BSNL prepaid sim card on Saturday and installed it in the second slot. All good so far and the signal showed up in the top of the display. I was doing some Dual Sim settings and suddenly the signal vanished and says "No Service". The sim was marked as disabled and a cross sign appeared along with the sim card symbol. Flight mode and back did not make any effect. Reset the phone and the sim got enabled again, but after 3 mins the sim got disabled. (This was repeatable). I could call the BSNL customer service (1507) during this period using the phone.

Worried that it could be an issue with Moto G and the one month period for exchange with Flipkart is also over. Swapped the sim card slots and the same issue repeats for the new sim card. Certainly the issue with the sim card. Thought of going back to the BSNL to exchange the sim.

Somehow, during this period, the SIM got fully activated and the problem never happened again. Apparently the phone was disabling the SIM when some of the service was not fully active for the sim. And no error codes/messages were given.

The Moto experience is back to glory. They have designed the dual sim software very vell and is very intuitive and convenient.