Marconi Clifden Celebrations

[g4tut]

Marconi Clifden Celebrations

On the 17th of October 1907 Guglielmo Marconi sent his first commercial message from the, then new, station at Clifden, Ireland.

This October, in celebration of this historic event, members of the Galway Radio Experimenters Club will be running a special event station from Saturday 13th to Wednesday 17th from Clifden.

The club has been issued the call sign EI100MFT for the event, MFT being the last call sign used on the original station.

On the Wednesday they will be making a special linkup with the Marconi sister station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Part of this linkup will be an exchange of greetings between President Mary McAleese and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia the Honourable Mayann E. Francis.

The group will also be honoured to have Princess Electra Marconi present as she is coming to Clifden for the festival along with an Exhibit from the Marconi Foundation in Bologna. The Galway Radio Experimenters Club will also be presenting a display of vintage equipment. More details on the festival can be found at http://www.clifden.ie

Visitors to the station are more than welcome and if you would like to participate this can also be arranged. For further information please contact Enda Broderick (II2II) on 086-8676410 or email: enda dot Broderick at lightnet dot ie

Source: IRTS




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[W9JAB]

Old News

[KI4UKF]

Nikola Tesla was better.

[N7BXY]

Give the man some credit! He was a pioneer, regardless of how much he knew about science.

It is also 'old news' that we (or some of us) celebrate various War Veterans holidays; such as memorial day, Veterans day, and that is not old news to the 'some of us' I previously mentioned.

Telsa was a genius. No arguement there. Just give marconi some credit.

[W4USC]

Are they planning a QSL party? If so what freq. / band etc.
I CAN'T seem to find that info in the links.

THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT, AND A GREAT QSL CARD TO HAVE FRAMED ON THE WALL!!!!

Thanks W4USC http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[kg4kww]

It would have been nice if they had listed the bands / freq's they would be using.

[ei3y]

IF U LOOK UP IRTS ON THE WEB ALL THE INFO IS THERE. EI3Y

[PR7CPK]

I do not have any negative restrictions to Marconi. Therefore, a just celebration will be make also to Nikola Tesla and to the notable brazilian scientist Padre
ROBERTO LANDELL DE MOURA considered also a pioneer as radio inventor according some patents required in Brasil on March 9, 1901 and in the United States of America on November 22, 1904.

[PR7CPK]

I do not have any negative restrictions to Marconi. Therefore, a just celebration will be make also to Nikola Tesla and to the notable brazilian scientist Padre
ROBERTO LANDELL DE MOURA considered also a pioneer as radio inventor according some patents required in Brasil on March 9, 1901, and in the United States of America on November 22, 1904.

Edmilson Rodrigues do Ó, PR7CPK

[KC0OBY]

Princess Electra ? ? ..... AHOOOGAAA !!!

[N7PLC]

Marconi & Cheese Yummmmm........ Still great after all these years.

[w2vw]

It's Princess Elettra.

[KG6UTS]

Fessenden, though later, should be celebrated too. Hey, all those fellows, Tesla, Roberto Landell de Moura, DeForest etc did some neat stuff in their time. Some included a bit of 'showmanship' butthat was how you dug up research funds.

EdZ 73

[w6ohm]

Yes, regardless of how we may view these men, you have to give them all some credit even if some are more deserving than others.

I also believe Tesla (and Armstrong) were geniuses, but Marconi was the better businessman and prevailed.

[W8AHB]

There is no way Marconi could have made his so-called historic trans-Atlantic transmission unless he used Tesla's four-tuned circuit idea, which Tesla had already patented. If you want to celebrate a thief and a businessman then go ahead. But I prefer to celebrate a discoverer/inventor; My students and I are the vanguard for promoting#Tesla properly. See: <http://www.ntesla.org>. W8AHB PS: Why don't some of you Tesla fans give us a helping hand instead of just talking about Tesla? If we had the support of the Radio Amateur community we could make a greater contribution to preserving Tesla's memory in history.

[W4CBJ]

Finally, a man of my own caliber. Tesla patented a circuit that showed BOTH an aerial and ground connection. He was the only one that did that and is really the father of radio. Thanks to W8AHB for crediting Tesla. 73 # Joe #W4CBJ

[KI4UKF]

Please check out Mr. Wagners website about Nikola Tesla. It is extremely informational.

http://www.ntesla.org/index.php



Tesla does not get enough credit for his work. Why has America forgotten a genius of such magnitude when he basically laid the cornerstone for so many technological advancements of the 20th century?

[K8MHZ]

Marconi was a scam artist. His actions concerning the communications during the Titanic disaster were reprehensible. Tesla was the father of radio.

[KC0OBY]

Princess Elettra ? ? ? .....AHOOOGAA ! ! !

[W0JBC]

KCØOBY:

Thanks for the chuckle for the day !!

JB

[kl7gnw]

I was born just a few scant hours after Tesla died on 7 Jan 43. I've been a ham for almost 40 yrs. If there was anything to reincarnation, I just wish he'd of given me some of his smarts. The guy was a flippin brilliant scientist. He was just ahead of his time by about 100 years.
Pete,
KL7GNW

[M0DSZ]

Wikipedia will involve you in the contention as to the inventor/discoverer of radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edward_Hughes

[gm3vlb]

I flew home from P.E.I./Cape Breton/Nova Scotia earlier today...I had, for me, the unique experience of (so easily!!) working transatlantic as VE1/GM3VLB/mobile (70W from my TS50s into a wire hanging from a 4.5m telescopic fishing rod!) from the Marconi Memorial site at Glace Bay, Cape Breton on the 16th. Sadly the Memorial had closed for the season on the 15th! It was even sadder to see the site is somewhat "run -down", with broken wires hanging down from the towers, a very rusty winch and tower hinge bolts etc.
To me (as a retired physics teacher), Marconi's genius (like Isaac Newton's and others) lay in his ability to bind together the work of so many other geniuses of his time...What an era in which we have had the privilege to live!
André, GM3VLB/5Z4KL

[KK5R]

US Supreme Court awarded Tesla the invention of radio in 1936 because Tesla had a radio-controled boat that was submersible at the Chicago Exposition in 1895. In fact, Marconi sat in Tesla's lectures. Tesla was an inventor, Marconi was a marketer. Same as Edison. Want to check it out, read Nikola Tesla, Prodigal Genius by John J. O'Neil

Also, if you want to read other contenders for the invention of some element of radio, check Mahlon Loomis and Nathan B. Stubblefield in Wikipedia. Interesting reading, also.
DE KK5R