the British Embassy returned to England I bought his
Hallicrafter SX28.

"It was at Harry's house in Kolonaki that I had my first taste of
amateur radio in action. He had a National HRO for reception and he
had constructed a 50-watt transmitter using surplus components which
were in plentiful supply at that time.

"Another friend of mine, Jim Liverios, was employed at the Civil
Aviation transmitter site on a hill south of Nea Smyrni. The American
Mission had set up their short wave transmitters on the same site and
later Interpol installed their own equipment as well. Liverios was
always on night shift because he attended the University during the
day. I still don't know how he ever managed to get any sleep. When
things were quiet he would 'borrow' a 5 Kw transmitter and tune it in
the 20 metre band. Using a callsign of his own choice (probably a
different one every night) he would have contacts with the whole
world. On his invitation I went there at midnight one night and
stayed until the morning. I remember we had QSOs with Cuba, Chile,
New Zealand and Australia."

THE AFFAIR OF THE PIRAEUS POLICE.

In 1947, there was a war in northern Greece which some people
called a civil war and others a war against the guerrillas, depending
on whose side they were on. Suddenly one morning all the Athens
newspapers came out with some amazing headlines:

"THE WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS OF THE COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN SEIZED IN
ATHENS"

"WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS FOUND IN COMMUNIST HANDS"

"HOW THE FIVE TRANSMITTERS OF THE COMMUNISTS WERE DISCOVERED"

"THE SIX INSTALLATIONS SEIZED BY THE POLICE"

Two of the newspapers printed the identical photograph (included
in the montage) with the following caption, 'The Communist
transmitters seized by the Piraeus police'. This was a photograph of
the shack of Mikes Psalidas SV1AF. At the top right one can see a
2-inch home-made monitor oscilloscope, which the newspapers described
as a 'powerful radar'!

"During the last three days," wrote one newspaper, "the police in
Piraeus have been investigating a very serious case implicating
leading cadres of the Communist party." Of course, it was nothing of
the sort. The equipment they had seized belonged to five radio
amateurs, George Gerardos SV1AG, Mikes Psalidas SV1AF, Nasos Coucoulis
SV1AC, Aghis Cazazis SV1CA and Sotiris Stefanou who didn't have a
callsign yet. In fact Mikes Psalidas was not even at h