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SPECIAL CALL SIGN FOR THE 5th OCEAN CLUB's AWARD "DAEDALUS and ICARUS"

Rules of the Award “Icarus and Daedalus”

The Greek department of the «Fifth Ocean Ham Aviator’s Club» will conduct this activity during 1 March to 31 March 2020.
These days are dedicated to the world wide known Greek Myth of Daedalus and Icarus.
For this purpose, it has been designed the following special Award:

Since ancient times, people dreamed of flying. The most famous ancient Greek mythology narrates how Daedalus and his son Icarus fly to leave the island of Crete.

According the Greek mythology and how Apollodorus tells us this story:
A white bull was sent to Minos by the god Poseidon (Neptune) to sacrifice. Minos, instead of sacrificing it, he kept it alive. Poseidon as a punishment, made Pasiphae to fell in love with the bull. When Daedalus and Icarus built the Labyrinth for Minos, he imprisoned them into the labyrinth, because they helped Pasiphae to mate with the white bull of Poseidon. Therefore, she gave birth to the Minotaur. Daedalus and Icarus escaped from the Labyrinth with the help of wings that Daedalus made for both of them, using feathers and wax. These wings were fastened to their shoulders and they flew away from Crete. Icarus, flew too high, causing the wax to melt and the wings to detach. So he felt into the sea and lost his life! The marine area where Icarus was killed is in the south of Ikaria island.

The «Fifth Ocean Ham Aviator’s Club» has members radio amateurs that have strong relationship with aviation and parachuting. Greece has two members in the club, Polydoros Stavropoulos (SV1AHH) and George Petrakis (SV1GGF).

Hams of all countries are welcomed to have contacts with the:
1. two operators with the special call sign SX1DI, and
2. all members of the Fifth Ocean Club
to radio amateur bands 1.8 - 30 MHz, VHF/UHF, in all modes.

Contacts for the award will be counted only during the days of the contest (1 to 31 March 2020).

The special temporary call sign SX1DI has been granted by the responsible Greek Ministry.
The two Greek members of the «Fifth Ocean Ham Aviator’s Club» SV1GGF and SV1AHH will activate the special call sign SX1DI from Athens Greece.

The conditions for completing the award:
Points that will be required: 20 points.
- contacts with the temporarily given special callsign SX1DI : 10 points.
- contacts with the members of the Fifth Ocean Club: 5 points.
Repeated QSOs are only allowed on different bands and different types of modulations.

The award is issued free of charge in electronic form through the site https://aviaham.hamlog.ru/diplom/

QSL cards via : e-QSL, HAMLOG.ru, QRZCQ.com, QRZ.com, CLUBLOG.org, DCL.darc.de
Award is available to SWL’s via e-mail. Please send us the log.

Best 73 de SV1AHH and SV1GGF
e-mails: sv1ahh@yahoo.gr and sv1ggf@gmail.com

«The Fifth Ocean Ham Aviator’s Club» https://www.aviaham.org

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Antenna Endfed and 100 Watts output.
Straight Key and medium speed in CW.