Hamfest India

Last updated March 04, 2025

Hamfest India is an annual amateur radio convention held in India since 1991. The event typically includes technical^{[ ambiguous ]} sessions, presentations, exhibitions, demonstrations, sales of radio equipment, and a flea market aimed at ham operators. It also seeks to promote interest in ham radio.^[1]

History

A series of meetings organised by the All Kerala Amateur Radio Clubs' Coordination Committee in Kerala, lead to the idea of a yearly convention. In August 1991, a net featuring discussions on technical^{[ ambiguous ]} topics named Hinet was launched.^{[note 1]}

The hinet discussions lead to the idea of organizing a "Hamfest" where HAMs ^{[ jargon ]} and SWLs ^{[ jargon ]} could meet and share ideas and techniques. The Kerala Amateur Radio Clubs Coordination Committee organized the first Hamfest on 28 and 29 December 1991 at Government Guest House, Kuttikkanam. The meeting had 38 participants.

Host cities with Convenors

Host cities with Convenors
Year	Place	Convenor name	Convenor call sign
1991	Kuttikkanam	Joseph Mattappally	VU2JIM
1992	Aluva	K. N. Gopinadhan	VU2EGM
1993	Salem	Premchand K.	VU2RPC
1994	Mysore	K. R. Madhukar	VU2MUD
1995	Mumbai	Adolph Shephard	VU2AF
1996	Kolkata	Avinash Misra	VU2EM
1997	Kochi (Cochin)	S. Suresh	VU2SUO
1998	Bangalore	Ramachandra	VU2RCR
1999	Mysore	M. T. Kesari	VU2MTK
2000	Hyderabad	Chalam Chivukula	VU2CLM
2001	Nagpur	Shrikant Jichkar	VU2SJA
2002	Chennai	M. Saravanan	VU2MSS
2003	Gandhinagar	S. K. Nanda^{[note 2]}	SWL ^{[note 3]}
2004	Mumbai	Nilesh Rathod	VU2NLF
2005	not held
2006	Kollam	K. G. Nadarajan	VU2KGN
2007	Guntur	R. Sarath Babu	VU2RS
2008	Gandhinagar	Dr S. K. Nanda^{[note 2]}^{[note 4]}	SWL ^{[note 3]}
2009	Bangaluru	M. R. Sampath Kumar	VU2YZ
2010	Pollachi	S. Vijayan	VU2WDP
2011	Kochi (Cochin)	K. G. Girish Babu	VU2KGB
2012	Chennai	K. M. Devadas	VU2DH
2013	Gwalior	Jayant Bide	VU2JAU
2014	Hyderabad	Ashaar Farhan	VU2ESE
2015	Rajkot	S, K. Nanda, I.A.S^{[note 2]}	SWL ^{[note 3]}
2016	Mount Abu	Yeshwant Patil	VU3YOR
2017	Kolkata	Mohammad Ariff^[2]	VU2HRF^[2]
2018	Bangalore	Dr S. Sathyapal^[3]	VU2FI^[3]
2019	Kanyakumari	P. A. Kumarasamy Raja	VU2PAJ
2020	not held
2021	not held
2022	Mysore	Shankar Prasad^[4]	VU2SPK^[4]
2023	Ahmedabad	E. Radhakrishna	SWL ^{[note 3]}
2024	Kolkata	Nilkantha Chatterjee	VU2OII

Notes

↑ The Net frequency was 7065 kHz, and the timing was 8 AM to 8.30 AM on all Sundays,
1 2 3 related to IAS^{[ ambiguous ]}
1 2 3 4 (no call sign)
↑ Secretary to Govt. of Gujarat

References

↑ "About – HAMFest India 2023" . Retrieved 30 August 2024.
1 2 "HAMFEST India 2017". hfi2017.hamconvention.net.
1 2 http://hamfestindia2018.com/
1 2 Saquib (10 October 2022). "Hamfest India 2022". It's HAM RADIO. Retrieved 17 October 2022.

External links

HAMFEST INDIA - HFI official interactive website Archived 10 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Gujarat Gandhinagar Hamfest of 2008
The Hindu
HAM RADIO CallSign Directory of India qrz.vu2ukr.com
Amateur Radio Social Network (for CallSign Holders) Archived 30 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
Hamfest India 2022

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[2] The Net frequency was 7065 kHz, and the timing was 8 AM to 8.30 AM on all Sundays,

[IAS-3] 1 2 3 related to IAS^{[ ambiguous ]}

[SWLcall-4] 1 2 3 4 (no call sign)

[5] Secretary to Govt. of Gujarat

[1] "About – HAMFest India 2023" . Retrieved 30 August 2024.

[HF17-6] 1 2 "HAMFEST India 2017". hfi2017.hamconvention.net.

[HF18-7] 1 2 http://hamfestindia2018.com/

[HF22-8] 1 2 Saquib (10 October 2022). "Hamfest India 2022". It's HAM RADIO. Retrieved 17 October 2022.

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