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1BCG located at Greenwich； Connecticut。 The station there was manned
by six members of the Radio Club of America。 One of the operators was
E。Howard Armstrong inventor of the regenerative detector； super…
regeneration and the supersonic heterodyne receiver； though the French
claim that the superhet was first designed by Lucien Levy of Paris。
Two days later the historic first complete message transmitted by U。S。
amateurs and received in Europe on the 〃short waves〃 （actually 230
metres） heralded a new era。 The message read：
No。1 de 1BCG。 WORDS 12。 NEW YORK DECEMBER 11 1921。 TO
PAUL GODLEY ARDROSSAN SCOTLAND。 HEARTY
CONGRATULATIONS。 SIGNED BURGHARD INMAN GRINAN
ARMSTRONG AMY CRONKHITE。
Eight British amateurs had also copied the message correctly。 One of
them was W。E。〃Bill〃 Corsham 2UV of Willesden； London who was later
credited by the R。S。G。B。 and the A。R。R。L。 as being the inventor of the
QSL card。 Bill had used a simple three valve receiver and an inverted…L
wire 100 feet long compared to Godley's huge Beverage array。
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In the summer of 1922 amateurs in France began to get licences and
Leon Deloy 8AB President of the Radio Club of Nice in southern France
started hearing British stations。 After a visit to the U。S。A。 Deloy was able
to improve his equipment and on November 27th 1923 he contacted Fred
Schnell 1MO of West Hartford； Connecticut for the first ever 2…way QSO
across the Atlantic。 They used the 〃useless〃 wavelengths around 100
metres。
INTERNATIONAL DX had come to stay。
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CHAPTER FIVE
THE FIRST GREEK RADIO AMATEURS
As no licences were issued for many years there are no official
records to be consulted。 Early activity was mainly in and around Athens
but there may have been one or two stations in other parts of the country
which we never heard in the capital。 At the time of writing （1987） four of
the original pioneers in the Athens area are alive and three of them are
currently active on the H。F。 bands。
Athanassis 'Takis' Coumbias has QSL cards addressed to him dated
1929 when he was a short wave listener in Odessa； Russia with the SWL
callsign RK…1136。 In 1931 his family； like many other Greek families in
Russia； moved to Athens where Takis built a 4…valve transmitter with
which he was very active on 40 and 20 metre CW using the callsign
SV1AAA。
I frequently operated his station myself and when I asked him why he
had chosen that particular callsign he gave me what proved to be a truly
prophetic answer。 〃It will be ages〃； he said； 〃before the Greek State
officially recognizes the very existence of radio amateurs and begins to
issue transmitting licences to them。 After that it might take another 50
years for them to get to the three…letter series beginning with SV1AAA。〃
In actual fact this is what happened： legislation was enacted 40 years
later and the callsign SV1AAA was officially allocated to Nikita Venizelos
after 54 years had elapsed！
Although at the time there was no official recognition of amateur
radio in Greece； the existence and identity of the handful of 'under cover'
operators was known to the Head of the W/T section at the Ministry of
Posts & Telegraphs （Greek initials T。T。T。） Stefanos Eleftheriou who did
more than anyone else to encourage and promote the development of our
hobby。 In fact； following a minor brush with the police in 1937 （described
by N2DOE later in this book） Eleftheriou issued three licences 'for
experimental research in connection with the propagation of short waves'
on the basis of earlier legislation governing the use of wireless telegraphy
which really had nothing to do with amateur radio。 The recipients of these
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three licences were Costas 'Bill' Tavaniotis SV1KE； Aghis Cazazis
SV1CA and Nikos Katselis SV1NK。 As there were no relevant regulations
the choice of callsign was left to the individual operators。 For instance；
Tavaniotis ran his own electrical and electronic business called KONSTAV
ELECTRIC so he decided to use 〃KE〃 as his callsign。
As far as I know the following ten amateurs were active in the Athens
area in 1937：
1。Takis Coumbias。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1AAA 2。'Bill'
Tavaniotis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1KE （silent key） 3。Polycarpos
Psomiadis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1AZ （now N2DOE） 4。Aghis
Cazazis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1CA （silent key） 5。Nikos
Katselis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1NK （silent key） 6。George
Zarifis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1SP/SV6SP （now SV1AA） 7。Nasos
Coucoulis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1SM （silent key） 8。George
Yiapapas。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1GY （now QRT） 9。Menelaos
Paidousis。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1MP 10。Norman Joly。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。SV1RX （now
G3FNJ）
In 1952 Costas Karayiannis who ran a big business called RADIO
KARAYIANNI published an amazingly comprehensive book entitled
ELLINIKI RADIOFONIA which means 'Greek Broadcasting'。 It
contained a vast treasure of information on many subjects allied to
broadcasting； and there was a page entitled DAWN （1930…1940） which
dealt with amateur radio activity in Greece before World War II。 It
confirmed most of the names listed above as can be seen in the photo…copy
of the original Greek text； and it mentioned three others： George Gerardos
SV1AG； （silent key）； S。Stefanou and Mikes Psalidas who was allocated
the callsign SV1AF 20 years later； though he； like many others had come
on the air after the end of the war with an unofficial callsign。
Were all these operators who functioned strictly in accordance with
international regulations pirates？ In my view they were certainly not
pirates。 If the State was officially unaware of the existence of amateur
radio how could they apply for licences and be issued with official
callsigns？
Later in this book N2DOE describes how a handful of amateurs had
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prepared draft legislation in 1937 at the request of Stefanos Eleftheriou of
the Ministry but the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 had
prevented him from taking any action in this connection。
The island of Crete in southern Greece was first heard on the air in
1938 when George Zarifis came on 40 metre CW using the callsign
SV6SP。 His transmitter consisted of a single metal 6L6 crystal oscillator
with an input of about 7 watts。 For reception he used an American CASE
broadcast receiver in which he had fitted a BFO。 In a very short period he
had about 500 QSOs。
Forty four years later some of the younger generation of operators
who had not heard of this early activity from Crete allocated the prefix
SV9 to the island。 Rather illogically they allocated SV8 to all the other
islands irrespective of their geographical position and with yet another
exception SV5 for the twelve Dodecanese islands。
General George Zarifis （retired） SV1AA as he is now； had started
playing with 'wireless' a long long time before he went to Crete。 In 1921
when he was in the 4th form at school he had bought two kits of parts
from France and
