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

Too bad for CBC

[Rackemup]

Since the techs at CBC are on strike, the tribute to Marconi special that had been planned for this week was cancelled.

I would have liked to have watched that. TV and learning, who'd have thought?

Marconi had good contacts and money.. nothing else

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't it amazing that eventhough it is known that Tesla was the pioneer of radio, that Marconi gets all the credit?

I think it's just as horrible as making Buzz Aldrin the first man on the moon, eventhough we know Neil Armstrong was first.

It's clear, even today, that ambition and skill is not related to fame whatsoever. The guy with the best contacts and/or money is the winner, not the clever guy.