[HCRA] FW: International Marconi Day on April 26 2008

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 International Marconi Day on April 26 2008
Starting Date: 04/25/2008
Ending Date: 04/26/2008
Address:         Coast Guard Beach Eastham, Massachusetts
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Coast+Guard+Beach,+United+States&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title


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International Marconi Day on April 26 2008

KM1CC Operating Plan for International Marconi Day, April 26, 2008 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC
CW and Phone on the following bands (General and Extra Class allocations):
80M 3535 CW, 3660, 3860 SSB, 40M 7030 CW, 7130, 7260 SSB, 20M 14035 CW, 14260 SSB, 30M 10.100, 17M 18080, 18160 SSB.

On April 26 Cape Cod National Seashore and amateur radio operators will celebrate International Marconi Day from 9 AM to 3 PM at the Coast Guard Station, Coast Guard Beach, Eastham. The event is free and open to the public.

International Marconi Day is a worldwide event honoring the birthday of the “Wizard of Wireless,” Guglielmo Marconi, on the Saturday closest to his birth date of April 25, 1874. During the event the Cape Cod Marconi Radio Club, KM1CC, will operate high frequency radios to make two-way contacts with historic Marconi Stations and radio operators around the world. Visitors to the event will see Morse Code and voice operators talking to other operators around the globe, and will learn about the role amateur radio operators play during local and national emergencies. Children will be able to use “keys” to practice sending Morse Code messages, and will also be invited to sign a birthday card that will be mailed to Marconi’s daughter, Princess Elettra Marconi in Italy.

On January 18, 1903, Marconi sent and received the first public two-way wireless communication between the United States and Europe (Poldhu Station, Great Britain), from his South Wellfleet Station. This station site is located in Cape Cod National Seashore and is open to the public. A model and remnants of the original station can be viewed at the site.

Cape Cod National Seashore has a free lesson plan about Marconi on its website, http://www.nps.gov/caco/education/lessonplans.html. Marconi: Beyond the Horizon includes activities that meet Massachusetts’ history, physical science, and technology/engineering learning standards.

For more information about historic Marconi Stations around the world and International Marconi Day visit: http://www.gb4imd.org.uk. For more information about facilities and programs at Cape Cod National Seashore visit the park’s website: http://www.nps.gov/caco.

Here is a link to the Cornish Radio Amateur Club:
http://www.gb4imd.org.uk

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International Marconi Day Event Is April 26 (Apr 15, 2008) -- 

Special event stations will be on the air Saturday, April 26 (UTC), to mark International Marconi Day (IMD) [http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/], a 24-hour Amateur Radio event commemorating the birth of wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi on April 25, 1874. Participants can qualify for awards by making contacts on 160 through 10 meters (CW, SSB and digital) with designated IMD stations operating on or near a site where Marconi carried out experiments or where Marconi equipment was used prior to his death in 1937. The sponsoring Cornish Radio Amateur Club (CRAC) [http://www.cornishradioamateurclub.org.uk/] will operate GB4IMD from Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall, overlooking Falmouth Harbour where Marconi spent some 10 days aboard his yacht Elettra in April 1923. Additional IMD stations will be on the air from the UK, the US, Canada, South America, Australia and Europe. The IMD Web site has a list of IMD 2008 award stations [http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/awardstns.htm]. On the US side, the Ma
rconi Cape Cod Radio Club, KM1CC, will operate participate at the Coast Guard Station on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, just south of Marconi's original 1903 station on Cape Cod. If you would like to operate an IMD 2008 award station, register your station [mailto:webmaster at gb4imd.org.uk] prior to the event, providing full details.

Here is a link to the original ARRL message: http://www.arrl.org/?artid=8144

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