A newly developed facility at the 3 MV Tandem Accelerator at Dhaka for measurement of proton induced reaction cross sections in the energy region below 5 MeV is outlined and tests for the beam charac- Ni(p, x) 57 Ni were also measured from threshold to 16 MeV using the stacked-foil technique, whereby irradiations were performed with 5 MeV protons available at the Tandem Accelerator and 16.7 MeV protons at the BC 1710 cyclotron at Jülich, Germany. The radioactivity was measured using HPGe -ray detectors. A few results are new, the others strengthen the database. In particular, the results of the reaction nat Ni(p, x) 61 Cu below 3 MeV could serve as beam monitor.