Japan Ham Fair 2005

The Japan Ham Fair 2005 was held at Tokyo Big Sight (sic) again this year, August 21 and 22. Attendance was up 2,000 over last year, with 16,000 visiting on Saturday and 13,000 on Sunday.

Yaesu has introduced their new FT-2000 HF to 50MHz transceiver, and Tokyo Hy Power has a variety of new amplifier and automatic antenna tuner products. Icom was showing off the IC-7000 transceiver. Comet and Diamond are each showing new "broad band" short HF antennas.

Ham Fair 2005

Entrance to the commercial exhibits, with Standard, Icom, and Kenwood

Main presentation corner

Victor Goonetilleke, 4S7VK, President of the Radio Society of Sri Lanka explaining their experience following the Tsunami disaster of 2004

standing room only at the CQ ham radio stage for the QRP talk by JA3ELR as he described his operations around Japan using an FT-817 and MP-1, or an HT-750

ARRL corner with DXCC card checking

The convention center rooftop was host to live steam model railroads (from the JAM Convention, the 6th International Model Railroad Convention) and the 8J1A antenna farm.

the Huff Potter 610mm guage steam engine and the 8J1A antennas

8J1A antenna farm

8J1A special event station from 7MHz to 1290MHz, including D-Star stations for 144/430/1200

JARL D-Star booth

Tokyo Bay beside the convention center with wind turbine visible in the distance, and water bus on the right

CubeSat SEEDS

JA3CKF operating his wind-powered FT-817 near the convention center entrance