Saturday 21 September 2013

All set for “Ham Fest India 2013”

The count down has begun! In another few hours, the most awaited event Hamfest India 2013 will start. This time this event going to be very interesting, since this being conducted  in  “Gwalior”  a tourist place many of the  Ham Radio delegates  are planning to visit all the surrounding tourist places. Among them particularly, some south Indian Ham’s are drawing plans to visit tourist places like Agra & Delhi.

It is something like real festival of hams in which many Ham’s & swl’s not only from India but also some from abroad also going to be participated. This year about 450 delegates have paid their registration fees so far. When compare to this number is somewhat less than that of the previous gathering in Chennai but hopefully some more are expected to join by making availability of spot registration.



Stimulating technical sessions and lectures, Exhibition of electronic goods and Participation of international industries like I-com, Kenwood, Motorola, etc are going to be some of the major attractions of this event. Above all, eye ball meetings of individual hams   with are each other are going to add more spice to this exhilarating mega event of Ham Radio.

                           A. Ramesh Babu VU2RDM

       Nostalgic memories of Ham fest India 2012  
With Gopal Madhavan VU2GMN,Chairman of the board of
 Directors of IARU, and OM Prasad VU2ICC


 OM S. Suri VU2MY Chairman,NIAR and
OM Ramana VU3RUV

OM Prasad VU2ICC and OM D. Ramakrishnan VU2DRK
         Ham fest India 2012 Convener 

 OM Charu Hasan VU2SCU and OMThiagarajan VU2PTR

OM P. Subramanyam VU2POG,OM Prasad VU2ICC,
   and OM Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE, BITX 14 MHz Designer
                 
                                         Ham fest India 2011
OM Sabu VU2ELJ,OM Pradeep VU2PEB,
OM Ramakrishna VU3NYD

 OM Mani VU2HSM, OM Guru VU2GUR 
 and OM Ramakrishna VU3NYD

OM Ramakrishna VU3NYD,Sabu VU3ELJ
 and OM Ramcharan VU3JCR

                                      Ham fest India 2010
Venue of Ham fest India 2010 , Pollachi

OM Charu Hasan VU2SCU,& OM Ramakrishna VU3NYD


OM Santhosh VU2OGO

                     
                with Charminar net controller OM Pradeep VU2PEB 
                 and  VU3KET,VU3WJN,VU3NYD,VU2RDM,VU2UTM

   












Wednesday 18 September 2013

New entrants of Ham Radio in Vijayawada


Group of trainees of “Academy of Ham Radio”, Vijayawada 

We are pleased to inform that the Department of Home affairs has initiated the process of “Police enquiry” which is essential part of awarding Ham Radio License. At about 92 candidates, trainees of “Academy of Ham Radio” who have qualified in the recent Ham Examination   which was held in two prominent Engineering colleges of Vijayawada i.e.,   “VR Siddhartha” and “Dhanekula Institute” are undergoing the process of Police verification.

As it is being on brisk progress, once this process is completed the reports will be submitted back to Wireless planning coordination wing, New Delhi which will enables the candidates to submit the required license fees.  

Also we wanted to share that our previous batch of 45 qualified candidates those who sat for the Ham Radio Examination in Regional Science Centre, Vijayawada, and the candidates of those who completed all the required process are receiving their tickets one by one. Among, some of them have already received their “life time Ham Radio licenses” recently.

With the increasing strength of total   137 new entrants to the existing strength of Ham’s of Vijayawada city of Andhra Pradesh makes it virtually a “Hub of Ham Radio operators”, if the recent trends are any indication.

Ham Radio Operators are being considered to be the national resource and they are potential source of communicators whose services are quiet useful in supplementing the Emergency communication network  at State and National level disasters.

                   A. Ramesh Babu (VU2RDM) 
                                   Contact No: 9248346843  

Monday 16 September 2013

Ham Radio work shop in Regency Institute of Technology, Yanam

Regency Institute of Technology, Yanam (U.T. of Puducherry), is a premier institute and is  approved by AICTE, New Delhi, affiliated to Pondicherry University – a Central University. The campus of the Institute with its serene, tranquil environment, free from noise and air pollution is an ideal location for an Educational Institution.  The campus lies very close to the confluence of the river Godavari with the Bay of Bengal and it provides an excellent panoramic view. Academy of Ham Radio has been invited by Regency Institute of Technology for conduct of Ham Radio seminars to their students & staff.

          We have been received with warmth   by Dr. K.V.S.Narayana, Principal, Dr. A. Rama Krishna Rao, Dean and the other staff members of the institute. Awareness Programms of Ham Radio were conducted in the spacious conference hall of the institute with the title “Role of Ham Radio in disasters” which attracted one & all. We have launched total 5 sessions in two days on 12th & 13th of September 2013 to cover massive 950 student strength & faculty members of the Institute. 

        At the end it created lot of interest enthusiasm and passion towards this activity, everyone shown interested to become Ham operators which includes non-other than The Principal, Dean and Head of the Department of ECE.


                        A. Ramesh Babu (9248346843)

Warmth welcome by the Principal

VU3NYD is being greeted by the Principal of the college

In Discussion with the Dean & Principal of the college



60 acres spacious campus of the institute 

HOD ECE  of the institute is seen  in the first line along with the students

The demo being attended by the Principal & Dean 

Demo with power point presentation of Ham Radio


Live demo of Ham Radio






















VU3NYD is addressing the gathering of students


Seminar is being addressed by the Principal of the Institute

Felicitation by the Principal & Dean

VU3NYD is being felicitated by the Principal, Dean , & HOD, ECE