CQ WPX SSB 2025: Team SZ1A is Ready for the Action!
We’re thrilled to announce that SZ1A will participate in the upcoming CQ WPX SSB Contest 2025 on March 29-30, 2025 – arguably our most favorite contest of the year! Known as the second-largest annual amateur […]
Introduction to the Decibel – what actually is a dB?
Introduction to the Decibel (dB) The definition of the bel was derived from measurements in telephony on the Bell system in the United States in the early 20th century. The bel (B) was named in […]
About Noise – plainly simple and easy to understand
About Noise An attempt to describe, for fellow radio amateurs, the nature, types and characteristics of noise in a simple and understandable way, avoiding the use of mathematical relationships and formulas Noise in telecommunication systems […]
New Board of Directors of R.A.A.W.G – SZ1A
Elections for the appointment of a new Board of Directors were held by the Radio Amateur Association of Western Greece (R.A.A.W.G) on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. The new composition of the five-member Board of Directors, […]
Radio Amateur Association of Western Greece – SZ1A New Year’s Event! Happy New Year 2025!
Yesterday, Sunday, February 2, 2025, was a day of celebration for the members of the Radio Amateur Association of Western Greece – SZ1A, their families and friends, as the tradition of the cutting of the […]
How I Joined Team SZ1A After SI9AM: A New Chapter in my Ham Radio Journey
CQ CONTEST CQ CONTEST… It all began a long time ago for me, when I was just 14 years old. It was Field Day in a small village in Belgium, out in the meadow among […]
CQ WPX Contests 2024 at SZ1A – An International Affair! (video & photo story)
The Radio Amateur Association of Western Greece consistently aims to participate in the largest and most popular amateur radio contests of the year which are the two most popular CQ World Wide DX Contests, SSB […]
J48PLH: Activation of lighthouse Plaka on Lemnos Island
August 2023. A family visit to the Plaka Lighthouse at the northeast end of Lemnos takes place. From there you can see to the north, the huge mountain of Saos (Moon) on Samothraki Island and […]
CQ World-Wide Contest: New Greece Record!
Team SZ1A made history in the CQ World-Wide DX CW contest on November 25-26, 2023, setting a new record for Greece (SV). With an outstanding score of 6,386,142 points, the team secured first place in […]
ZS6EZ visits SZ1A for the CQ World Wide DX Contest
Copyright © 2024 Chris R. Burger ZS6EZ – All rights reserved. A more comprehensive version of this story appeared in the March edition of Practical Wireless. Planning During 2023, I started wondering whether it […]