China to hold first 'Hamvention'

The WIA reports that China is set to hold its very first hamvention.

The Chinese Radio Sports Association is to hold the first ever 'Hamvention' in Southern Anhui Province at the famous tourist region called Huangshan or in English, Yellow Mountain.

The Hamvention will span a full 5 days and cover subjects like Amateur Radio Today in China, EME and show Amateur Radio related movies throughout.

There will be competitions and a station operating throughout under the callsign BY6HS.

There will be technical sessions and one of VK's IRLP Gurus, Mike VK8ZMA, will be giving a short talk on IRLP in Australia and take questions and answers from the guests on Australian Amateur Radio.

Mike is stationed in China in the city of Shouxian in Central Eastern China for all of 2008 with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on a joint American/Chinese/Australian project operated by the Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring unit of the US Department of Energy.

Mike has almost completed the extensive processing required to be issued with a Chinese callsign and is planning to report to WIA National News after the event which has attracted a lot of interest within the relatively small
Amateur Radio fraternity out of China's massive 1.3 billion population.

The Hamvention concludes with a tour of the famous Yellow Mountain on the final day.

The Hamvention commences on Monday the 29th September and concludes on Friday the 3rd of October 2008.

Wireless Institute of Australia