Marconi 100th Anniversary Special Event January 11-19, 2003

The special event is now underway! Check the logs at http://www.qsl.net/k1usn/marclog/logs.html.

****IRLP, ECHOLINK and STREAMING AUDIO added to KM1CC Special Event Operation ****

The 100th Anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s First Wireless Telegraph transmission between the United States and Europe will be on on January 18, 2003. From atop high, sandy cliffs overlooking the Atlantic, Marconi transmitted a simple, 54-word greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt to Great Britain’s King Edward VII. Within hours, the King acknowledged receiving the message, and the spark of global communications began.

The Marconi Radio Club, W1AA, and the Marconi Cape Cod Memorial Radio Club, KM1CC, working in partnership with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore, will operate a Special Event station 24/7 from January 11-19 at the former Coast Guard station at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts. The location will be near the site of the original Marconi 1903 Station on Cape Cod. From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day, the public will be able to tour the station, listen to voice and Morse Code discussions with other radio operators around the world, and learn about wireless technology.

The callsign to be used for the event will be the call of the Marconi Cape Cod Memorial Radio Club.

KM1CC

For those who remember this was the same call sign used during the 75th anniversary in 1978.

NASA International Space Station Link – Selected Students from three Cape Cod High Schools (Cape Cod Vocational Technical High School-Harwich, Provincetown High School- Nauset Regional High School) will communicate with astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station.

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