Author: Andrew Georgakopoulos - SV1DKD

New Lightning & Surge Protection Devices for SZ1A

Upgrade of Station Lightning Protection

With all of the improvement and upgrade projects underway at SZ1A, equipment donations from fellow HAMs and colleagues, sponsorships, much volunteer work with a lot of effort and passion put in, both from veteran and […]

Learn More
Prevent TVI & RFI with the PB-LPF1500-54 Low Pass Filter - Unboxing & VSWR Testing (video)

Prevent TVI & RFI with the PB-LPF1500-54 Low Pass Filter – Unboxing & VSWR Testing (video)

Afraid of causing TVI / BCI / RFI / EMI? Well, you can prevent against this, by installing a high-quality Low Pass Filter such as the PB-LPF1500-54 HF + 6 Meter LPF from LOW BAND […]

Learn More
6m (50.1MHz) Far Field Plot of End-Fed Half Wave Antenna

End-Fed Half Wave (EFHW) Antenna Modeling with MMANA-GAL

I wanted a quick & easy to install high-power multiband wire antenna for field-day and temporary operations and I’ve been hearing a lot about End-Fed Halfwave antennas lately. So I recently purchased the EFHW-8010-2K from Myantennas.com which […]

Learn More
KVR Non-Directional Beacon Tower

Will the NDB “KVR” be heard again?

As 160Μ CQ WW CW begins tonight… I’m posting a few photos and nostalgic thoughts about the decommissioned high-power (KW) Non-Direction-Beacon “KVR” at Kavouri, in Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece. In the photos, you can see the […]

Learn More

TIMEWAVE ANC-4: The Miracle of phase shift active noise cancelling! (video)

Above I’ve created a video demonstrating the “miracle” of phase shift active noise cancelling with the ANC-4 from Timewave My town had just put-up new LED-based street lighting (a multi-million euro procurement and they bought […]

Learn More