Kolkata is the birthplace of wireless communication. Shri Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, the father of wireless communication, discovered and exhibited the existence of electromagnetic waves in the year 1894 in the Town Hall of Kolkata, in the presence of Lieutenant Governor Sir William Mackenzie. Lieutenant Governor Sir William Mackenzie watched and documented the demonstration by Shri Acharya Ja
gadish Chandra Bose. This event was three years before the famous wireless experiment of Marconi in the year 1897. The first two amateur radio operators in India were from Kolkata. Shri Amarendra Chandra Gooptu (callsign 2JK) and Shri Mukul Bose (2HQ), who got their amateur radio operator’s licence in 1921 and the first two-way ham radio communication in the country was done by them in Kolkata in 1921. (In 1929 the VU prefix came into effect in India). The son of 1st Ham of India, the late Sri Amarendra Chandra Gooptu, VU2JK, co-founded the Bengal Amateur Radio Society in 1996.
