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 2004 will be
at Mumbai, Maharastra.

 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

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.

HAM RADIO-2000

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

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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