The
Syrian Scientific Technical Amateur
Radio
Society.
In 1947, a group of radio amateurs
established the Technical Institute of Radio .The call sign YK.. ,assigned by
the ITU “International Telecommunications Union“ was used.
Mr. Rashid Jalal YK1AA was President of
TIR (Technical Institute of Radio) since the beginning until 1983. He
was an active ham until the last breath until he
passed away in April 1991 after 43 years of continuous radio amateurism.
The club station of
TIR was named after him and
the call sign YK0RJ
is used
for the club.
In 1982, T.I.R. celebrated the 35th
anniversary and on that occasion the prefix 6C… was for the
first time ever used by the Syrian
Amateurs for one week.
The number of radio amateurs
decreased until by 1977 only YK1AA remained holding the flag of the hobby. That
year, his son Mr. Hekmat Zuhdi got his license with the call sign YK1AM and Mr.
Michel Sioufi got his lisence in 1978 with the call sign YK1AN. In 1980 Dr. Omar
Shabsigh got his license with the
call sign YK1AO.
In 1983, the first contact in Syria on the
/160/ m band took place between YK1AA and YK1AO.
That same year YK1AO, Omar was elected
President of TIR with YK1AN, Michel Sioufi as Vice President and YK1AM, Hikmat
Zuhdi as Secretary of the society.
In 1987 the number of amateurs increased
by five new members. Among them
were the first ever lady amateurs: YK1DS, Dana and YK1YL, Siham.
In 1986, for the first time, knowing Morse Code
became obligatory to get an amateur license.
In November 1994 and for the first time in
the history of Syria a foreign
DxPedition of radio amateurs reached Syria to work from Damascus with a call
sign YK0A. They were from the Northern California DX Foundation.
During this time
three first time events took place: RTTY and Packet operation,
and the use of the
10 MHz band and .
In 2005 TIR was incorporated as the
Syrian Scientific
Technical Amateur Radio
Society.