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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 08 2018 09:05 am

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2119, for Friday, June 8, 2018

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2119, with a release date of
Friday, June 8, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. The Maritime Mobile Service Network helps a
ham in distress at sea. Amateurs celebrate a modern-day Marconi
message -- and we visit German's Ham Radio Friedrichshafen. All this,
and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2119, comes your way,
right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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QSO FROM CAPE COD WITH GUGLIELMO MARCONI'S DAUGHTER

PAUL/ANCHOR: We open this week's report with news that someone named
Marconi has successfully completed a contact by wireless across a
body of water. But wait - this is almost 120 years after this
transmission created unprecedented news - and this is, of course, a
different Marconi. The event - with Marconi's daughter - was a big
happening nonetheless, as we hear from Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.

KEVIN: Imagine a QSO with a Marconi. If you had been at the Cape Cod
National Seashore, on Thursday, May 31st, you would not have needed
your imagination. At the Wellfleet Marconi Station there, the rig was
tuned to 14.224 MHz. At the microphone was Guglielmo Marconi's
daughter, Princess Elettra Marconi. Shortly before noon, another
wireless Marconi message went out -- this time to the historic Signal
Hill station in Newfoundland, Canada. The special event coordinator
of the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs, Chris Hillier, VO1IDX,
had arranged for their station, VO1AA, to make the contact. At the
microphone in Canada was 18-year-old Aaron Kent Abbott, VO1FOX.

Although Princess Elettra has visited both Marconi stations on previous
occasions, the moment's significance was lost on no one - the radio
pioneer himself first transmitted from this New England station on
Jan. 18, 1903, sending the first two-way wireless message from the U.S.
to Europe. It was at the Newfoundland station on Dec. 12, 1901, that
Guglielmo Marconi had received that historic first translatlantic
signal - the letter "S" sent in Morse Code from England.

More than a century later, the event in May was no less remarkable,
said Barbara Dugan, N1NS, a trustee of KM1CC, the Marconi Cape Cod Radio
Club. She said [quote] "Marconi's magic was with us." [endquote]

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.

(ART DONAHUE W1AWX, BARBARA DUGAN N1NS)

PAUL/ANCHOR: To hear the QSO between Princess Elettra, and the Society
of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs, visit our website at arnewsline.org ,
and click on the tab that says "EXTRA."

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RADIO MUSEUM NEAR DUBLIN GEARS UP FOR INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND

PAUL/ANCHOR: Fresh on the heels of the recent Museum Ships Weekend is
International Museums Weekend - and in Ireland, one participating radio
museum also has a Marconi connection. Here's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

JEREMY: Although ships, castles, pumping stations and aviation museums
qualify as locations for International Museum activations, one museum
near Dublin, Ireland, is a natural for the event. Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy
Museum of Vintage Radio, will be participating on Saturday and Sunday,
16th and 17th of June, with the callsign EI0MAR. The museum is located
in the Martello Tower, the site of the first telegraphy station that
connected Ireland to Great Britain in 1852. It was in this tower that
America's Lee de Forest experimented with wireless telegraphy at the
turn of the 20th century. The tower was also home to a Marconi receiving
station that conducted experimental telegraphy communications with the
HMS Monarch. Hams will be operating from that tower during the weekend,
and organizers say volunteer operators are needed for both SSB and CW.
For details on how to participate, send an email to ei0mar at eircom dot
net ([email protected]) The station is customarily operated by the Howth
Martello Radio Group on Sundays.
The site opened as a museum in 2003.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

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