HAMRADIO 2010 videos

Several videos of this year's HAMRADIO event in Friedrichshafen are now available.

Attendance at HAMRADIO 2010 was 16,800, down slightly on the 2009 figure of 17,400, but still an impressive total.

Essex amateur John G8DZH of the Loughton and Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society (LEFARS) was one of the many UK visitors at the event, he writes:

The HamRadio show had moved to the the set of halls this year and traders re-organised. Hall A1 was for companies as before but it meant that some traders who had previously used the Flea market halls (cheaper) were now no longer able to do so. Private individuals and those selling surplus / used items could stay in the Flea market halls.

One side effect of the new policy was to see a stand next to the Yaesu selling connectors and ladies' handbags and accessories!

Some familiar faces were missing (Taurus for one). Also less computer bits. However, there was still a wide range of components, radio bits and strange things on offer.
The quantity of Russian surplus seems to be less also.
If you wanted to make your own linear amp, all of the components were available including the harder to find high voltage caps.

The first video captures the variety of languages you get at the event. The YouTube description says:

This is a short reportage about the HAMRADIO 2010 in Friedrichshafen Germany. That was 185 exhibitors and unions from 29 countries - an international event. We didn't translate the film because we didn't know whether to put into German, English, French, or Spanish. So this is a polyglott version - enjoy it.

Watch - Ham Radio 2010 polyglott

EA5AWC has produced a good video of still pictures that capture well the flavour of the event

Watch - Friedrichshafen 2010 Ham Radio

HAMRADIO Friedrichshafen
http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de/ham-en/