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 […]

Is there really a danger of “the sky falling on our heads”? Lightning protection of our station and our house is always a move in the right direction. Let’s see how it is done and […]

Recently I have noticed that there is a lot of interest in the amateur radio community regarding baluns-chokes with ferrites, the placement of which is intended to reduce returned and unwanted RF. Introduction Most of […]

Hamclock is a handy application able to show: accurate time, world map & time zone, solar activity, sunrise and sunset times (grey line), DX Cluster Spots, Beam heading & Maidenhead Grid Locators, Northern California DX […]

The beauty of Amateur Radio is that it isn’t just one single hobby. It has so many different parts one can deal with, so it’s a never-ending quest. But one thing that is common in […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]