100 Years Since The First Transatlantic Broadcast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday December 12, 2001 @04:05AM from the good-going-marconi dept.

Diarmaid O'Loughlin writes "It's the 100th year since the first comunications over the pond The Marconi Radio Club and The Falmouth Amateur Radio Association Amateur Radio operators are making plans to celebrate a Marconi world historical event. December 12, 2001 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Trans-Atlantic radio transmission." The BBC is also carrying the story as well. Embedded Geek adds a link to coverage on stardate.com, pointing out that "there will be events in the ham community to commemorate it, including a reenactment broadcast (look here under 'Marconi's Celebrations' for others)." This would be a nice day to swing by the Cape Cod station, too.

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100 years... by digitalamish · 2001-12-12 04:31 · Score: 3, Funny

and I still can't get over the air radio in my cubical. Oh, what dark times we live in. :)
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That Broadcast is 100 Lightyears Away by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-12 05:12 · Score: 1, Funny

All those aliens that are running their own SETI programs will be send a reply which should arrive a hundred years from now. Either that or they will send a fleet to destroy us.
Marconi's words by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-12 06:29 · Score: 1, Funny

What has been lost to history were Marconi's REAL first words. These were:

First Post!

:)