Amateur Radio Trust,

"KING WOOD", 11-8A, Pottayadi Road, Thirumalai puram, Thovalai, Nagercoil - 629302, India.

 

 

HAM Get-togethers in India

HAMFEST INDIA

'HAMFEST' is a festival of HAMs, the largest gathering of Indian HAMs in one place, conducted every year in different cities of India since 1991.  The main objective is to create an awareness of HAM RADIO along with the the new technological skills in the field of communication.
Looking back at the history of HAMFEST, it was started in a very small way at 'Kuttikkanam', Kottayam, Kerala in 1991 by Joseph Mattappally (VU2JIM) and he was declared the HAM of the year.  The idea of organizing a get-together of needy and helpless HAMs, called 'HAMFEST' wherein all HAMs would come individually irrespective of their club or society and collectively work for the HAMFEST and with the spirit of the hobby.
 

This year


Hamfest India 2009  will be at NIJAGUNARA  KSHETRA, BASAVANAGUDI, BANGALORE  on 7th  & 8th of NOVEMBER 2009

 Previous history

Year

Place

General Convenor

Call Sign

1991

Kuttikkanam

Om. Joseph Mattappally

VU2JIM

1992

Alwaye

Om. K.N. Gopinathan

VU2EGM

1993

Salem

Om. K. Premchand

VU2RPC

1994

Mysore

Om. K.R.Madhukar

VU2MUD

1995

Mumbai

Om. Adolf Shepherd

VU2AF

1996

Calcutta

Om. Avinash Misra

VU2EM

1997

Kochi

Om. S. Suresh

VU2SUO

1998

Bangalore

Om. R. Ramachandra

VU2RCR

1999

Mysore

Om. M.T. Kesari

VU2MTK

2000

Hyderabad

Om.Chalam Chivukula 

VU2CLM

2001

Nagpur

Om.Shrikant Jichkar

VU2SJA

2002

Chennai

Om. M.S.Saravanan

VU2MSS

2003

Gandhi Nagar

Om. J.G. Pandya

VU2JGI

2004

Mumbai

Om.Nilesh Rathod

VU2NLF

2005

 Kollam

Om.K.G.Nadarajan

VU2KGN

2006

Port Blair   (VU4)

YL. D.Bharathi Prasad

VU2RBI

2007

Guntur

Om. R.Sarath Babu

VU3RSB

2008

Gandhi Nagar

Om. Pravin Valera

VU2CPV

2009

Bangalore

 

 

HAMEXPO
'HAMEXPO' is conducted every year during August / September by Adur Amateur Radio Club, Mukalethu Matom, Adur - 691 523, Kerala, India. Telephone: +91 - 473 - 428385.

WIRELESS
'WIRELESS' is conducted every year during December by Ham Radio Guild (VU2HRG),
( P.O. Box: 2267), 32/984, Manayil, Palarivattom, Cochin - 682 025, India.
Telephone : +91 - 484 - 373697 ., +91 - 482 - 657473
E-mail: vu2hrg@qsl.net

  • Ham Radio Guild conducts correspondence course for HAM.

Special Call Signs

Ministry of communication (WPC wing) decided to assign special call signs to all Indian HAM community to mark the celebrations,
 

·  Suffix '/C' to their call sign
from 2nd October 1995 to 17th November 1995 to coincide with 100 years of radio communication, major ITU events such as 'World Telecom Exhibition and Forum', 'World Radio Communication Assembly and World Radio Conference 95'
 

·  Suffix '/50' to their call sign
from 1 July 1997 to 30th September 1997 to coincide with celebrations of  the 50th year of Independence.
 

·  Prefix 'AT' instead of 'VU'
in December 1998 to coincide with a celebration of World Amateur Radio Centenary and Platinum Jubilee of Amateur Radio in India.
 

·  AT0ITU
VU2UR was granted with the above call sign from 17th May 1997 to 31st May 1997
and 5th July 1997 to 27th July 1997 for the IARU HF Championship contest.


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