Gwalior (India) HamFest 2013 (September 21^st & 22^nd) Website Launched

Organizing committee for Gwalior HamFest 2013 has moved ahead in preparation for the grand event and has now launched the official website on World Amateur Radio Day (April 18th 2013)  at Hotel Surya in Gwalior.  Registration is now open via the website and you may also check the list of registered hams on the portal. For more details, visit Hamfest India 2013 website.

The organizers have planned Eyeball QSO contest, forms for the same would be provided during registration itself to members who would attend the hamfest. The website also lists places of interest in and around Gwalior, thus if you are visiting north for the first time, it would be nice to spend few extra days to travel and engage in sight seeing.

Organizers have outlined the key features of the event as

• Exhibition of electronic goods.
• Participation of international industries like Icom, Kenwood, Motorola, etc.
• Technical sessions and lectures.
• Evening studded with entertainment programmes.
• Sightseeing program for all the delegates.
• Awards distribution ceremony

WARD - World Amateur Radio Day April 18^th

April 18th is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years). This day marks the founding day of International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), thus the official birthday since 1925 has been celebrated as World Amateur Radio Day.  

By all means World Amateur Radio Day remains an individual thing, there is absolutely no compulsion or fancy events to commemorate the day organized on a global or national scale. This being a special day though each HAM is encouraged to promote the hobby, increase awareness, get on air and spread the good word.

Amateur Radio has come a long way over the years. The first spark-gap devices served as transmitters for first three decades of the radio (1887 - 1916) and today we have moved on to digital signals, SDRs integration with computers has shown how HAM Radio remains in the forefront of evolving technology.

The JARL Tokyo Ham Fair takes place on August 24(Saturday)-25(Sunday), 2013 and it will be held at Tokyo Big Sight, Ariake, Tokyo. Last year the event witnessed participation by 33,000 during the two day event.