Mahabalipuram Eyeball 2010 : A memorable Ham-together

The Gala event in progress.

Cherished by all HAMS & among the popular events in VUland, Mahabalipuram Eyeball meet 2010 was conducted today at TTDC Resort near Chennai and turned outto be a huge success. The meet organized by the untiring efforts of OM Vittal VU2 VIT and his team had 101 participants from all four South Indian states belonging to different walks of Life, but offcourse united by the loave for radio waves.

Thanks to the entire team for the wonderful location TTDC resort & AC conference hall . Om Santhanam VU2 YFS welcomed the gathering. One minute silence was observed for the sake of departed souls who passed away in the past year. OmVU2DH Devadas honoured VU2 PCP and VU2 VIT for their wonderful contribution through the years to Hamdom .

Few senior hams like VU2 UR, VU2QM, VU2 RVK were felicitated by VU2 VIT. A VHF handheld donated to the Yercaud Repeater(TCD repeater Maintenance fund) was auctioned in a very innovative american way on the floor by VU2 DRK and VU2DH.

A life time Achievement Award by ARSI was given to SWL T.K.Vishwanathan, which was presented to him by ARSI President VU2GMN . The details of the astonishing achievement by this swl was narrated by Vu2 UR.

VU2GUR gave very good narration about satellite communication and a notable new system of a dipole which was really very interesting. VU2 LF, VU3 MII, VU2 ABS, VU2 PCP had compact stalls full of exciting ham stuffand was a real crowd puller.

VU2PTR narrated about his new venture PTR 2K 10 , a 50 watt transmitter set assembled by him in his own clean and compact construction way. It was astonishing to note that cost is less than Rs. 2500/ even though it was finished in a very good commercial manner.






VU2DH, VU3VWR, VU2VIT & VU2DRK

VU3RGK with his homebrewed sattelite communication/UHF antenna.

VU2PCP with his homebrewed VHF/UHF beams and slim jim antennas.

The following from chennai hams participated apart from HAMS/SWL's from various other south Indian states including Kerala/Karnataka/AndraPradesh:

VU2GMN, VU2 DRK, VU2UU, VU3 WIB, VU3 MSZ, VU2 VIT, VU2 BOA, VU3 STJ, VU3 MES, VU3MII, VU2 RDX, VU2 PTR, VU3 GGK, VU2 GHX, VU2 DH, VU3 USI, VU2 AKW, VU3MOA, VU2 KLS, VU2 CMR, VU2 TTL, VU2 GWH, VU2 SBU, VU3 VWR, VU2 ABS, VU2 PIY, VU2 AKW, VU2 SDU, VU2 WYR, VU2 UBR, VU2 KBX, VU3 RGK, VU2ISR, VU2 UMX, VU2 LF, VU3 MPK, VU2 YNT, VU3 INA, VU2 LSW, VU2 DNY, VU2GMS, VU2 GPS, VU2 ATN, VU2 DPN, SWL ARULRAJ, SWL, VELMURUGAN, SWL ASHOK, SWL VIPIN SHANKAR.

Full Photo Album pls click below links.

Mahams 2010 , PhotoAlbum contributed by VU2DPN.

Mahams 2010 , PhotoAlbum with Narration contributed by VU2LSW(Narayan Rao).

CLICK TO VIEW A SHORT VIDEO ON MAHAMS 2010.

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Thanks and Regards

ChennaiHamsBlogspot Team