Hamfest

Join the Hamfest Committee on March 11th

Join the RRRA Hamfest Committee and be a part of making your club’s 2025 Hamfest a successful event.

The committee’s first planning meeting is on Tuesday, March 11th.

There is more to holding a successful hamfest than setting up the tables on the day of the event. We have a lot to do beforehand.

For starters …

  • We need to start working on finding a place to hold our 2025 hamfest.
  • We need to start working on the program of activities for our hamfest.
  • We need to create a budget.
  • We need to start working on event publicity; advertising and press releases must be published many months in advance to ensure that attendees see them far enough in advance to prioritize our hamfest over others.
  • If there will be seminars, we need to start working on finding dynamic and interesting presenters. Do we want strictly passive presentations? Or do we want engaging activities?
  • If there will be a door prize drawing we need to start working on soliciting prize donations.
  • And we need to find corporate sponsorship to underwrite the cost of operating our hamfest so that ticket sales will be pure profit for our club.

All of these things take time and volunteers; more than the small handful of hams who are currently committee members.

Please give serious thought to how you can help in the hamfest planning and preparation process. Even if it is just for a limited amount of time.

Our monthly planning meetings are held via the Zoom teleconferencing system. Usually on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

Are you ready to make a difference?

If you would like to be a part of the solution please subscribe to the Hamfest mailing list so that you will receive our Zoom meeting announcements. Just follow these instructions:

  1. Go to the Hamfest Info Page
  2. Look for the section marked “Subscribing to Hamfest” and fill in the boxes. You can fill in the following:
    • You must enter your email address
    • Please enter your first name and call-sign (no slashed zeros)
    • You may choose a password. If you do not choose one, Mailman will generate one for you. Warning: Do NOT use a valuable password, since this password may be mailed to you in plain text
  3. Press the subscribe button. A new page should appear telling you that your request has been sent
  4. You will receive an email message asking for confirmation that you really want to be subscribed to the list. This is to prevent anyone from subscribing you to lists without your permission. Follow the instructions given in the message to confirm your wish to be subscribed
  5. Wait for a moderator to approve your subscription request
  6. After your subscription is approved you will receive a message welcoming you to the list. This message contains some useful information including your list password and some quick links for changing your options, so you may want to save it for later reference.

Please contact the Webmaster Team if you need help with the mailing list.

Please contact the if you have questions about how you can make a difference by actively supporting your club.