SZ1A News and Updates

2020 Annual General Meeting and Elections

The Board had postponed the elections planned for last March due to the urgent measures for COVID-19. With a new decision, the Annual General Meeting and elections are to be held on Sunday, September 27, […]

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QSL-ing via the Bureau and more

There may be many ways to confirm a QSO with another station (LoTW, E-qsl, etc.), but the top way, in my opinion, is the QSL card and especially the one we will receive for free […]

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SZ1A new 3rd tower

Rebuild and Upgrade of the 3rd Antenna Tower at SZ1A

You may remember that our 3rd and largest Tower which housed our 40m beam, had fallen victim to an extreme storm. You can read more details of the disaster earlier this year here (Greek) From […]

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Analysis of Spots reported by the SZ1A Skimmer

You may have read a previous article of mine (Greek), here on SZ1A, about skimmers. How do we put all this into practice? How will this technology be useful in our daily lives? How can […]

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SV1DPJ participated in CQ WPX CW 2020 as SZ1A

Vasilis SV1DPJ participated in the CQ WPX CW Contest on the weekend of May 30-31, 2020, with our club station callsign SZ1A in the Single Operator 20m High Power Assisted category. Vasilis managed a very […]

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Final results of the 2019 CQ World Wide DX Contest CW

The final results of CQ WW CW 2019 have been published. Our final score is 4,778,427 points. This result gave us 1st place in Greece, 34th place in Europe and 52nd place in the world […]

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The team that participated in CQ WW SSB 2019 with operators SV1DKD, SV1PMQ, SV8PMM, SV1QXU, SV1CIB, SV1CQN, SV1HKH, SV2HQL, SV4QNP and SV1GE

2019 CQ World Wide DX Contest SSB – The results are in!

The official results of the 2019 CQ WW DX Contest SSB have been published. We competed in the most demanding category, the multi-operator single-transmitter high power (MS HP) category. CQ WW SSB is the world’s […]

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SSB QSO via Qatar OSCAR-100 - The First Geostationary Satellite carrying Amateur Radio

A Practical Guide to Getting on Qatar OSCAR-100 (video)

An Introduction Qatar OSCAR 100 launched on November 15, 2018, and is the first geostationary satellite with an amateur radio transponder on-board. It is a joint project of the Qatar Satellite Company (Es’hailSat), the Qatar […]

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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 […]

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Upgrading the 3rd tower… a lot of work and we’re almost done!

During the last weekend of March 14-15, several tasks were undertaken at SZ1A. The most significant was the installation and fitting of three telescopic tower sections, that were kindly donated by Kostas, SV1DPI, on the […]

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