Nov 15, 2010

HAMFESTINDIA 2010 held at pollachi a grand success














Hamfest India 2010 held at pollachi on 13th and 14th November was a grand success with great eyeball and nice get-together celebrations for all radio lovers . More than 510 HAM's from all over India as well as abroad participated. Around 30 hams and swls attended from Chennai.






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HAMFESTINDIA 2010 ALBUM 1 (Courtesy VU2RDN)
The weather conditions were excellent, a simple homebrew VHF repeater with 500mw output at the venue for local communication (covering from palghat to Coimbatore with low power). Hams from Calcutta, Bombay, Cochin, palaghat, Bangalore and one from Japan also participated. Excellent arrangements from the college, good food. Few stalls selling commercial and home brew antennas, old and new connectors, assembled working boards used scopes and frequency counters added special interest to the home brewers.
Our Chennai ham Aravind VU2ABS with his XYL had the biggest stall selling all kind of HAM tech stuff like a Ham radio superstore you find abroad.

A special thanks to Vijayan VU2 WDP and other pollachi hams for the great function. The next ham meet would be at palghat. More updates with photos would follow.

Chennai hams who participated :
VU2 AB, VU2 ABS, VU2 AIR, VU2 AKW, VU2 CMR, VU2 CSM, VU3 CBM, VU2 DH, VU2 DRK, VU2 GMN, VU2 KLS, VU2 UMX, VU2 SDU, VU2 SCU, Vu2 JA, Vu2 DBS, VU3 VEE, Vu3 USI, Vu3 MOA, VU2 GJR, VU2 ISR, Vu2 VAU, Vu3 VWR, Vu3 OEL, Vu3 GGK, Vu3 MII, Vu2 DPN, Vu2 RDX , VU3 CPE, VU3 MSP

8 comments:

  1. Hi

    nice pics and info on Pollachi hamfest. people who could not attend like me can at least see the pics. very commendable effort indeed. let us look forward to meet in Palghat.

    73 vu3mes

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  2. Really missed..
    Look forward to join at Palakkad.

    Thanks a lot for sharing the info and all the best

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  3. I have been to three hamfest. This was the worst, no output, poor audio. Nothing new to share same presentation of vu2hmy is going on for last three years since Gandhinagar hamfest.

    73
    de vu2sgw

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  4. vijayan, pl send me ur mobile. vu3rcn now in 5H land

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  5. The worst Hamfeast. Even though we paid for the accommodation again we paid at the Lodge. The food was served in the corridor of the unreconstructed building.
    No useful scientific events?
    So totally waste! Hamfest...

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