In 1987 I became one of the founder members of International Marconi Day that is held
on the Saturday nearest to April 24th [Marconi's birthday].
There will usually be approximately 50 official stations taking part from locations around
the globe where Marconi carried out his numerous experiments.
We offer an award to both transmitting amateurs and short wave listeners for making
contact with at least 15 of the stations and provide an excellent certificate for their
achievement.
Might sound easy but believe me it is not as you have to find the contacts first and
then compete with the other stations calling them, 24 hours of pure mayhem.
The Cornish Radio Amateur Club, as the organising group, represent the site at Poldhu
Cover where on 12th Dec 1901 the first transatlantic contact was made between Cornwall
& Newfoundland. The Poldhu Amateur Radio Club join us on the day operating GB2GM
their permanent call from the Marconi Centre at Poldhu.
Everyone in Italy thought Marconi was a madman but, he was accepted to carry out
research by the English Admiralty when his mother brought him over to England.
As I said earlier, thank goodness England embraced his lunacy or we would possibly have
a different world today
This is a brief description only, please visit our International Marconi Day Site by
clicking on the following link.
Norman G4USB
marconi calling opens a page with a pinkish colour left corner small red cross nothing else
left comment screen went white say i have said that comment before had to press blue arrow return to last page
That is a problem displaying the Marconi Site and not with the Blog.
The Marconi Site requires up to date installation of Flash etc.
Suggest go to the site from your browser window direct to check
my response as it works fine with my set up in various browsers.
Can’t leave another comment until last has been reviewed/agreed.