LZ2KPK – Amateur Radio Club Village of Polikraishte
On 10.10.1966, several people, enthusiastic young people, set the beginning of an organized amateur radio movement in the village of Polikraishte.
In a room, in a private house, on the village square – Boncho Vassilev /LZ2AS-sk/, Boyan Adzharov (sk) – activist of the radio club in G. Oryahovitsa and Milko Pendov /LZ2UC/, placed on a table /taken from the community center/ a converted concert receiver “Orpheus”, a Morse code manipulator and a buzzer and “the wheel turns”. It starts with listening activities and a radiotelegraphy circle with students from local elementary schools /3/. During this time, the transmitter of the future radio station was built with 100% materials provided by the District Radio Club LZ2KBA with head Ivan Popov /LZ2SA/ and on a cold winter day, on 15.01.1968 LZ2KPK went on the air with about 50 watts on a GU50 and Ant VS1AA.
The receiver is the same “Orpheus”, but it was later replaced with the Russian KV-M and then with the Bulgarian “Signal”.
As a result of the positive impact among the youth, the amateur radio club received the support of the mayor’s office, the school administration, the public in the village and the most effective was the financial assistance from the local APC/TKZS/.
Thanks to this assistance, a 10m steel pole was erected on the building of the Agricultural Complex where the radio station is located, on which a 4-element antenna was built cubic square for 14/21 MHz with a boom length of 9m. For 3.5 MHz a Delta was made, materials were prepared for the manufacture of 3 elements of a beam for 7 MHz and 5 elements of a square of 28 – but unfortunately the latter were not realized.
The educational activity continues at a good pace – every year there are three circles – two in telegraphy – for beginners and for advanced and one in radio detection “fox hunting”. The latter is going poorly due to problems with the material base – an insufficient number of receivers and only one transmitter.
It only reaches participation in district competitions. The number of operators is constantly changing, but there are periods when their number reaches 15-20 and this leads to the organization and opening of a second radio club in the village at the Youth Center with the initials LZ2KAB.
Radio amateur operators regularly take part in internal republican and international HF competitions with varying success, but there are also prize places. In the 90s of the last century, the activity of the clubs gradually died out and after 2000 they officially ceased to exist, but they remain the most ardent on the air. One statistic: as of 2010 in Polikraishte there were 9 personal amateur radio stations with 22 initials for about 2000 inhabitants.
On the occasion of the club’s 20th anniversary in 1986, Polikraishte hosted the IV National Meeting of Amateur Radio Families.
Initials in Polikraishte:
LZ2KPK, LZ2KAB – Ceased to exist 2000 – officially.
LZ2AS (sk), LZ4WJ
LZ2UC, LZ2CU, LZ4UC,
LZ2PS, LZ4UU, LZ2YVV, LZ2CWW
LZ2UR, LZ2OR, LZ2HW, LZ2HU
LZ2DD, LZ2IAA, LZ4ZZ, LZ4AR
LZ2DB (sk), LZ2TB, LZ4BW, LZ4BD, LZ2UAA
LZ2CRA
