Jan 2009 - Yercaud Shevroy HAM meet 2009

The Shevroy Ham meet 2009 was organised in Yercaud on Jan 25 and Jan26 2009 at Yercaud hills and saw some good participation from lot of HAMS . More than 235 HAMS and SWL's from all over India.

From Chennai the following hams attended the meet

Vu2 DPN Deepan / Vu2 DRK Ramki / VU2 GMN Gopal / VU2 AKW Ashok
VU2 DH Devadas / VU2 ISR Harsha / Vu2 PTR Thiagu / Vu2 GJR Dr. Gaja
Vu2 BOA Sam / VU2 VMZ Hari / Vu3 MOA Mohan / Vu3 CBM Balu
Vu3 STJ Radha / Vu2 VMK Mohameed / Vu2 GHB Hari / Vu2 CDP Deepak

Vu2 WYR Manohar With his full family attended the meet.

A record break of 137 checkin in the morning net on the January 26 2009 Year 2007 record checkin is 111 only. The fox hunt was a great event 4 teams participated. VU2DH and team become second. A 6 SqKm radius on a hilly terrion was a difficult one..Excellent food arrangement both veg and non veg. From near by Chennai Vu3wib DAYALN with his family also attended. Everybody expressed sincere thanks to VU2 PCP for the great effort to run the show as a single man . VU2 DPN was also appreicated for conducting the fox hunt and controlling the net.

Some photos of the event to get a visual profile.
Expert HAM fox, VU2DH Devdas from Chennai emerging from his Fox Den after the hunt.












Vu3OGO, VH3DH, Vu3RSB and an SWL













VU3STJ and VU3MOA















vu3ITI,VU2 YFS,VU2 PCP andVU3 NKK on stage











The second prize winning team for the Fox Hunt headed by VU2DH Devdas from Chennai












VU2IRH & team receiving award for first prize in Fox Hunt

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fox hunt 3 rd place vu2 ctn vu3ksj vu3 gnu vu3 nkk

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Mahabalipuram HAM Eyeball Meet 2009

Mahabalipuram Amateur/HAM Eyeball Meet 2009 : The Great Get - Together

The organizers of Mahabs HAM eye ball meet are proud to dedicate this year's meet to OM MV Chauhan in recognition of his service to promote ham radio in India particularly in Chennai.
Around 87 hams and SWLs attended the function from Tamil Nadu , Andhra, Karnataka, and Kerala.
It was a real pleasure to meetup withg old HAM friends from vary places after quite sometime. VU2VSD S OM Sundar welcomed the gathering. OM Vittal VU2 VIT spoke about OM Chauhan VU2 MV mentioning the relationship with him, the services rendered by him for promoting ham radio in India.

OM Guru VU2 GUR shared his experience about the Ham satellite contacts. Dr. Rajasekar reddy VU2 HMY explained about his project Transceiver. After the lunch break VU2 PTR, VU2 LF, VU3 PAL , VU2 ARA displayed ham gears for sale.

From Chennai following HAMS joined in :
VU2 VIT Vittal, VU2 UU Shankar, VU2 LF Lakshman, VU2 GWH Hari, VU2 CDP Deepak,

VU3 STJ Radha, VU2 BOA Sam, VU2 MPK Appan, VU3 JRN Jamuna Rani, VU2 UMX Umakanthan, VU2 DH Das, VU2 GHX Madhavan, VU2 RDX Dhanasekar, VU2SAA Sampath, Vu3 CPE Vimal, VU2 ISR Harsha, VU2 DPN Deepan, VU2 WYR Manohar, VU2 PTR Thiagu, VU2 ETO Ravi, VU3 GGK Gopal, VU3 LFW Narayana Rao, VU2 DRK Ramki, VU3 USI Christi, VU2 AKW Ashok, VU2 TTL C-Kay, VU2 VAU Srini, VU3 MOA Mohan, VU2 CSM Shan, VU2 MTS Anantha, VU3 RLR Ratan, VU2 KLS Kalyan, VU2 DJM Murthy, VU2 KBX Anna, VU3 WIB Dayalan , VU3RGK Rajesh and SWL Nathan Participated .

Other hams like VU2 YFS Santhanam, VU3 ITI Varadhan, VU2 GUR Guru, VU2 QM Anantha VU2 FTF Rajan, VU2 ARA Arasu, VU3 ICI Mohan, VU2 IXY Reddy, VU2 RVK Vijay, VU2 OHM Arul, VU3 PAL Pal, are the few noticeable .

Thanks to VU2 GWH, VU3MPK, VU3 WIB, VU2 TTL, VU2 KBX and Vu2 INA Iynarappan from Kalpakkam for the excellent arrangemts .

VU2 PTR, VU2 FTF

VU3GGK - GOPAL , VU2VAU - SRINI, VU3MOA - MOHAN & VU2DH - DAS

VU2DPN, VU3 USI, VU3 GGk, Vu2 GHX

Vu3 STJ,VU2 BOA,VU2 VMZ,VU2 VAU,VU2 ARA

VU2VIT

VU2 DRK,VU3ITI ,VU2 OHM

VU3 USI, VU3 GGk, Vu2 GHX

VU2 GWH, VU3 MOA, VU2 PTR

VU2 ISR, Vu2 CSM



If you would like to see some more good photo collection of the Mahabs EyeBall Meet 2009 , pls click http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/bbcsakthi/MahabalipuramEyeballMeet2009#

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Wishing all Chennai HAM enthusiasts and your families a very happy, properous and joyful 2009. This blog is free forum, not owned, regulated or controlled by anyone, its an effort to create platform for knowledge sharing for anyone interested in Amateur Radio based in Chennai.

This blogsite is on development phase and hence pls excuse if not to expectations. This is a new initiative in 2009 by like minded Chennai based freelance HAM Radio /VHF enthusiatics , seeking participation from both existing licensed users as well as budding one's/SWL's to grow this passion further. The key binding factor here is only one thing "The love of having your voice on Air"

Introduction on Amateur Radio in Wikipedia: For Full Article pls refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_in_India

Interesting Indian HAM site with lot of active users/visitors : http://www.hamradio.in/

Interesting site on HAM Radio in India with lot of useful info :

http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/ham/ham.asp

Interesting site of a foreign HAM about his experience visiting Chennai and meeting up with HAMS during an Andaman DXpedition : sp3key.com/jhf/vu4/index.html

Chennai HAMS in action.

A dream HAM Radio shack , belongs to a HAM in Ireland