100 Years Since The First Transatlantic Broadcast

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.

Comments

The actual celebration is in Newfoundland, Canada

[Christopher Whitt]

I live in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the commemoration of Dec 12 1901 is an annual event here.

The provincial government has an official site for the 100th celebrations. The local section of the IEEE is also involved in organizing the celebrations.

Here are some more websites relating to the celebrations:

• A little history of the annual commemorations of the first transatlantic wireless transmission. The very bottom of the page has information on recent years.
  Dr. Zedel taught me Ocean Acoustics last semester...
  
• The Instrumentation, Control and Automation lab on the floor below me is organizing a radio-building contest for high-school students.
  
• The Italian site already linked elsewhere in the comments.
  

By the way, despite being way out in the Atlantic ocean, Newfoundland is a beautiful province and a wonderful place to get away if you like the outdoors, hiking, game hunting, sport fishing, whale-watching, and lots of other things.