LZ 26 ZA is a special event callsign to glorify the exploit of 26 Bulgarian saint monks perished in defence of the Ortodox faith. That happened in 1284 in the St. George Zograph monastery on the Month Athos Peninsula. The memory of the 26 saint monks is honoured on October 10-th / 23-th. (for details see The Saint's Lives)

Between 1-st and 31-st of October  2011, Balkan Sports Club LZ1KZA, will use  will use this special event callsign LZ 26 ZA.

 LZ 26 ZA counts for "All Bulgarian Saints" award and 10 points towards "St. Teodosii Tyrnovski" award.

http://www.balkanclub.org/awards.htm

                     DIPLOMA „ALL BULGARIAN SAINTS”

Since 01.01.2011Balkan Sports Club LZ1KZA begin to issue annually this Diploma.
To obtain the Diploma it is necessary to establish : For European stations - QSO’s (SWL reports) with 10 different memorial callsigns, and for stations outside Europe - QSO’s (SWL reports) with 5 different memorial callsigns. Memorial callsigns are dedicated to Bulgarian Orthodox Saints.

For 2011, these callsigns are 14:

LZ 11 PGP                from 01.01.2011 till 31.01.2011

LZ 170 MDS              from 01.02.2011 till 28.02.2011

LZ 1370 PRT             from 01.03.2011 till 31.03.2011

LZ 1802 PLO             from 01.04.2011 till 30.04.2011

LZ 855 SRKM            from 01.05.2011 till 31.05.2011

LZ 1016 WIW             from 01.06.2011 till 30.06.2011

LZ 910 PNO               from 01.07.2011 till 31.07.2011

LZ 1670 SWS             from 01.08.2011 till 31.08.2011

LZ 1794 MAB             from 01.09.2011 till 30.09.2011

LZ 26 ZA                    from 01.10.2011 till 31.10.2011

LZ 11 PPE                  from 01.10.2011 till 31.10.2011

LZ 1195 IR                 from 01.11.2011 till 30.11.2011

LZ 1685 PDB              from 01.11.2011 till 30.11.2011

LZ 1363 PTT               from 01.12.2011 till 31.12.2011

The cost of the Diploma is 10 IRC (or 5 EUR), and also it can be obtained free of charge in electronic form by e-mail.

Please send applications to: lz3ga@abv.bg

For paper version of the Diploma please send: 10 IRC to P.O. Box 36, Karlovo, 4300 BULGARIA, or 5 EUR to the PayPal account:  lz1zf@abv.bg

QSL cards are not necessary, only an extract from the log.

For each year Diploma will be issued with a separate numbering: No / 2011 and etc.

Only memorial callsigns will be changed and Diploma can be obtain every year for QSO’s within period from January 01 till December 31 for the relevant year.