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Zbigniew Max Rybka Krasnik Lubelski, Poland QCWA # 4693 |
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Zbigniew Rybka SP8HR was born on 12.10.1915 in Kraanik. Shortly, he began to be interested in high school. At the age of 14 he built a QRP transmitter (Hartley) and a shortwave receiver 0-V-1. It should be added that the first steps were made together with the father of currently known to all Ryszard SP2IW from Bydgoszcz. Ryszard's father ran a shop with radio receivers and a workshop in Kraanik. As a more experienced in construction, he helped Zbyszko in the construction of receivers and later transmitters. Unfortunately, Zbyszko, as an experienced listener, failed to convince his colleague to amateur radio.
He illegally started working under the invented SP3ZR mark. However, in fear of possible consequences on the part of the school, he quickly suspended his activities. He undressed the transmitter. After passing the baccalaureate, he started law school, although he dreamed of a polytechnic, which he could not afford because of difficult financial situation. At the same time, he worked as a radio technician.
In 1931 he returned to amateur radio. He signed up to the Polish Radio Broadcasting Club in Warsaw and received a PL-423 listening license. For four years he was an active listener - he gained the title of the most active SWL in the SP. You can learn about his feats by browsing the pages of "Shortwave Polish" from 1931-35. As a result of sorting SWL characters, its character was completed with the letter S (SPL-423) which facilitated the circulation of QSL cards.
The first sender license was obtained in 1935 with the SP1KG mark. Under this sign he worked until the end of August 1939 and carried out several thousand QSOs including hundreds of DX communications. It should be noted that the SP8HR worked with about 1W of power, which was dependent on the state of the anode battery. He passed communication confirmed by QSL cards with all continents. He established the first British SP-Honduras SPA (VP1AA). At the end of the 1930s, he founded the first scouting radio station in Poland. Its members listened to the first places in the competition organized by the main headquarters of the ZHP. He was a member of the staff of the first National Scouts Camp for Shortwaves in the summer of 1939. Of course, after the war, the participants of the camp obtained licenses. Among them were: SP5FK, SP6FL, SP9EK and SP9EU. He spent his occupation in Krasnik . At the end of the war he was imprisoned. After liberation, he re-entered the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, which he graduated in 1946. The next stage of deduction was the court and prosecutor's apprenticeship initially at the Grodzki Court in KraÅnik and then at the District Court and the District Prosecutor's Office in Radom. Subsequently, he started legal training. After passing the exams, he started working in the Bar Association No. 1 in KraÅnik. He built a single-family house in which he lived until the 1980s.
In the years 1950-52 he worked in the Regional Board of the Social Committee for National Radio Broadcasting in Lublin. For this work he received the Golden Badge SKRK.
He resumed his amateur radio activity in 1957. He was a founding member of the PZK Lublin Branch in 1957, and the PZK-SP8PLU Lublin Shortwave Club. He received a permit (SP8HR) No. 401 / A dated February 4, 1957. At that time, the permits were also granted to SP8HT (currently SP7HT), and SP8HV (currently SP2HV) from CheÅma Lubelski and SP8HU later SP2HU) from Lublin. Since then, he worked under the sign SP8HR. For twenty years, he has conducted over 100,000 communications with 250 entities. All KF bands then available were mainly CW. He has won over 200 diplomas including as valuable as the Top Honors CHC for 200 diplomas from all continents QRP. It was the second diploma of this type in the world. As he writes in his memoirs, he never exceeded the power of 25 W. In 1984 he became a member of OTC.
For four terms he was the president of ZOW PZK in Lublin and in the years 1960-1985 he was the Chairman of the Chief Arbitration Tribunal of ZG PZK. He was a member of the Management Board of SP DXC. For many years he was the head of the club's diploma section. In 1970 he co-authored (along with SP6FZ and SP5AIW) pot sweat books entitled "History of Polish Shortwave Radio". In 1959, he published the brochure "Shortwave Diplomas" by ZOW PZK in Lublin. He was very involved in the activities of the scout scouts. QRP Club appointed him an Honorary Member of the Club.
In 1972 he received a silver badge - a Meritorious Communications Worker, 1973 a silver medal for Merit for National Defense, and in 1975 a medal of the XXX anniversary of the Polish People's Republic.
In addition, in 1973. he received the Honorary Badge of PZK for his activities for PZK. (No. 008). In 1992, the National Congress of PZK gave him the honor of an Honorary Member of PZK. However, for the overall activity for Polish amateur radio, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He was very musical, he played the piano wonderfully and was the soul of the company.
In autumn 1980, he participated in a serious car accident. He retired. He lived in Lublin in the last years of his life. He died on August 13, 2003 and is buried in the Parish Cemetery in his hometown of Krasnik.
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Rok 1937/38 - na zdjeciu czlonkowie Zebrania Organizacyjnego, na któ powolany zostal Lubelski Klub Radionadawcó siedziba w Gimnazjum im. Batoregoi w Lublinie. Stoja od lewej: SP1KG (SP8HR) Zbigniew Rybka, SP3AS (SP8SZ) Wladyslaw Socha, SP3CI Kazimierz Juszczakowski, SP1EG Wladyslaw Nestorowicz, SP2TA Antoni Tylda. Na drugim planie: inzynierowie i technolodzy z Lubelskiej Wytwó Samolotó Poczty Polskiej. |
Wyprawy tez byly - rok 1960. Ta ekipa szykuje sie do wyjazdu a celem jest Chelm. W centarlnym punkcie nadajnik a na nim stoi odbiornik HRO. Stoja od lewej: L.Walczak - SP8BKL, Kazimierz Wojniak - SP8MG, Jacek Sieron - SP8BAI, Zbigniew Olender - SP8AOV, Zbigniew Rybka - SP8HR, Jerzy Miskiewicz - SP8TK |