Texoma Hamarama Hamfest

10/04/2025

Ardmore Hamfest
Texoma Hamarama
October 11, 2025

The 77th version of the Texoma Hamarama is Saturday, October 11, 2025. Friday, the hamfest will open for flea market and vendor setup between noon and 4:30 p.m. On Saturday, the hamfest opens at 8:00 a.m. (7:00 a.m. for flea market/vendor setup) and runs until 3:00 p.m. Entry tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door. Flea market/vendor tables are $15 ($20 at the door). Get your tickets online today at hamarama.org/. Tickets are always available at the door.

The hamfest is located at the Ardmore Convention Center at 2401 N Rockford Rd, Ardmore, OK 73401. Take I-35 to exit 33 and head east for a block or so to reach N Rockford Rd. Turn south, and you will see the convention center on the right.

The ARRL/ARES forums/meetings and several others are on the schedule at https://hamarama.org/.

The flea market tables are going fast, but some are still available. We also have free club tables to promote your club.

SPECIAL Yaesu FTDX101D Radio Super Raffle
This special $20 super raffle ticket will give you a chance to win a spectacular $3,500+ Yaesu FTDX101D radio. Tickets are going fast for this raffle, but you can buy your tickets online and get more information here. This will be a limited raffle. Only 300 tickets will be sold, and they are going fast. You do not have to be present to win.

The winner of this prize does not have to be present to win and will be announced at the 2025 Texoma Hamarama Hamfest. Don't miss it. See you there. Get your tickets today!

Forums on Saturday morning will start at 9:00 a.m. Topics scheduled are ARRL Forum with West Gulf Division Director John Stratton N5AUS and Oklahoma Section Manager Mark Kleine N5HZR; AUXCOM with Gayland Kitch WX5MOR; and lots more.

See you there!!!

10/19/2024

Texoma Hamarama is next weekend, Saturday, October 26, 2024. The hamfest opens at 8:00 a.m. (7:00 a.m. for flea market/vendor setup. Vendors can set up on Friday afternoon) and runs until 3:00 p.m. Registration entry tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door. Flea market/vendor tables are $15 ($20 at the door). Get your tickets online today at https://hamarama.org/.
Get your tickets today, and remember the Yaesu FTDX10 super raffle!!! Only three hundred $20 tickets will be sold. Get yours today, or at the hamfest.
The hamfest is located at the Ardmore Convention Center at 2401 N Rockford Rd, Ardmore, OK 73401. Take I-35 to exit 33 and head east for a block or so to reach N Rockford Rd. Turn south, and you will see the convention center on the right.

10/13/2024

The 76th version of the Texoma Hamarama is October 26, 2024. Friday, the hamfest will open for flea market and vendor setup between noon and 5:00 pm. On Saturday, the hamfest opens at 8:00 a.m. (7:00 a.m. for flea market/vendor setup) and runs until 3:00 p.m. Registration entry tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door. Flea market/vendor tables are $15 ($20 at the door). Get your tickets online today at https://hamarama.org/.

Get your tickets today, and don't forget the Yaesu FTDX10 super raffle!!!

The hamfest is located at the Ardmore Convention Center at 2401 N Rockford Rd, Ardmore, OK 73401. Take I-35 to exit 33 and head east for a block or so to reach N Rockford Rd. Turn south, and you will see the convention center on the right.

07/20/2024

Ham Holiday 2024 will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27, 2024. Tickets are available online at https://hamholiday.com/tix/ . Bring your amateur radio friends or make new ones here.

On Friday, July 26, the doors will be open from 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, with the Ham Holiday Friday Banquet starting at 6:30 pm.

Saturday, July 26, the doors are open from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.

All of this happens at Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S May, Oklahoma City, just south of I-240, on May Ave.

Buy, sell, trade, and learn all about amateur radio at Ham Holiday 2024. https://hamholiday.com

Ham Holiday 2024 is a two-day HamFest held continuously since 1974. Ham Holiday will again be at the Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) in Southwest Oklahoma City this year. We will be in the OCCC Student Union. Follow the arrows when you get to campus and head to Parking Lot D.

Our Friday night banquet speaker and special guest will be ARRL West Gulf Division Director John Stratton N5AUS. John will discuss all of the ARRL's recent activities.

There will also be forums or classes to help you gain knowledge and learn something new about various topics.

The amateur radio license examination session will be at 12:30 pm on Saturday. You can get your amateur radio license or upgrade your license right on-site for no testing fee. Register for a test at https://w5nor.org/vereghh/

In addition to the great door prizes, this year, we have a special limited raffle for a chance to win a Yeasu FT-DX10 operating package worth about $3,000. Only 300 twenty-dollar tickets will be sold for this raffle. Please get your tickets today before they run out at https://hamholiday.com/tix/ .

You can get your tickets online today or at the door, and we'll see you there.

73

10/30/2023

The 75th version of the Texoma Hamarama is in the books. Thanks for a great 2023 Texoma Hamara. We had lots of vendors, exhibitors, and attendees.

See you next year at Oklahoma City's Ham Holiday on July 27/28, 2024, and at the Ardmore Texoma Hamarama on October 26, 2024. Both hamfests will be returning to their venues and we'll hope to bring more amateur radio fun to these events.

We thank everyone for their participation and look forward to seeing you next year.

This year's prize winners are as follows:

2023 Special Raffle - ICOM 705 super package - Eric Chambless K5OD - Amarillo, TX

2023 Pre-registration prize - Vonnie Meritt KE5RKC - Union City, OK

2023 Grand Prize - Toby Roberson KO5T - Grandview, TX

Hourly Prizes
9:00 a.m. - Wolf River Coils SOTA Special Antenna - Shelley Stevans - KD5CCI
10:00 a.m. - Alpha Delta 4-Position Antenna Switch and $25 Hamthreads gift card - Kenneth Eppler AD5CC
11:00 a.m. - TekPower TP305WI 30 Amp DC Power Supply and $25 Hamarama Bucks - Lyndle Smith KI5JTT
12:00 p.m. - ICOM IC-V80 2M HT and $25 Hamaram Bucks
1:00 p.m. - Yeasu FT-70DR C4FM Fusion Dual Band HT - Mike Rockey KE5EQC
2:00 p.m. - Quansheng UV-K5(8) Walkie Talkie and $50 Hamarama Bucks - Tim Maloney KA7NWT

73 - thanks a lot - and see you next year!

Central Oklahoma Radio Amateurs (CORA)

75th Diamond Anniversay Texoma Hamarama October 28, 2023 Welcome to the 75th Annual Texoma Hamarama! Yes, we’ve been around, at one location or the other, for that long! We hope to capture all of the pictures of the ballroom dancing, past events, speakers, etc., that YOU might have. Please CONT...

10/28/2023

Texoma Hamarama is Ready To Go (QRV).
We're all set up and waiting for you! We'll be open from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sofie's BBQ will be here at 10:00 a.m. Come see us at the Ardmore Convention Center.
See you here!

10/10/2023

10/07/2023

The 75th Diamond Anniversary Texoma Hamarama Hamfest is coming soon. Saturday, October 28th, is the big day. This annual event started in 1948 and brings amateur radio operators across the region together. Hamfests are a great place to buy parts, radios, and related gear. You can also get licensed or upgrade your license for FREE (testing is at 11:00 AM). You can learn more about the hobby and get everything you need to get on the air and stay there.

This year, we’re still at the Ardmore Convention Center (ACC), 2401 N Rockford Ave, Ardmore, OK 73401 (I-35 at Exit 33). We will fill it with vendors, forums, amateur radio tests, and flea market tables. ARRL / ARES / Digital / Youth forums. Discount tickets are available online at Hamarama.org for $10 advanced / $12 at the door. $20 gets admission plus 5 additional raffle tickets. Extra prize raffle tickets are always available for $2.

And remember the special ICOM 705 $3,000+ package raffle! Tickets are only $20, and only 300 will be sold. This awsome package contains everything you need to operate CW, digital, and phone on HF, VHF, and UHF right out of the box. Radio, tuner, battery, Begali key, antennas, antenna analyzer, coax, and more!!!

07/22/2023

Ham Holiday Pre-Registration is still open until Tuesday! The website is back up to speed and ready to buy your tickets NOW! https://hamholiday.com/ This is central Oklahoma amateur radio operators’ big hamfest event of the year. We will meet at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) again this year on July 28/29, 2023. Tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door. Vendors, flea market tables, food, drink, forums, and more!

The Friday evening BBQ Banquet is $30 and starts at 6:30 pm. This year’s featured guest will be Joe Eisenberg K0NEB. Joe is affectionately known as “The Cat In The Hat” from his adventures around the country.

The doors will be open on Friday from 3 pm to 7 pm. Saturday, the doors will be open from 8 am to 3 pm.

Food will be available all day Saturday from the OCCC Cafeteria, so come hungry and grab some breakfast and lunch on site.

Sessions and forums will be held Saturday starting at 9:00 am, and license testing will happen at 12:30 Saturday afternoon. The forum schedule is on the web.

All details and ticket sales are available online at https://HamHoliday.com/shop2/catalog/.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

06/06/2023

The Texoma Hamarama is STILL SCHEDULED for 2023. The website will be updated soon. Meanwhile, the Duke Forest (Albuquerque) event has been cancelled according to their website.

This was a nice, large 3-day event but reading the announcement it sounds like it was cancelled due to lack of volunteers. That is a scary situation that happens often; this casts a long shadow, even into neighboring states like our own.

Please support your local events. If you like to take some time to attend one, give back some time to grow another.

10/24/2022

Well, Texoma Hamarama 2022 is in the books. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this years event such a success! From the CORA groups manpower assistance, to the Ardmore Amateur Radio clubs help in running the tail gating area, to the Arbuckle Technology Society for manpower and site management. Our vendors, the ones that many of us attend to see each year, thank you.

In short, if you attended, THANK YOU! We hope to see you next year! If you have any pictures you are willing to share, please post them here…