[K3CAL] Fwd: [070Club] W4F Special Event - 120th Anniversary Of The First Wireless Voice Transmission

[Dave]

Did you know the first vo8ice radio transmission was made from Cobb Island in St Mary's County on the Potomac River in December 1900?  
Sharing this message from my PSK group about a special event station operating now until the 24th.  Go to W4F  on QRX.com for more into.
DaveKB3RAN


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From: Marcus Lieberman <buckml at lobo.net>
To: main at 070Club.groups.io
Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2020 11:13 am
Subject: Re: [070Club] W4F Special Event - 120th Anniversary Of The First Wireless Voice Transmission

 Hi, folks!   
  There is a wonderful book about Fessenden by his Wife (I think). It tells how he told telegraphers on ships to listen for a Christmas message at a particular time.  Instead of the usual dots and dashes, the Sparks heard actual music and then Fessendon singing a Carol (He couldn't find anyone else to do it!).  It must have been amazing! 73, all, and Merry Christmas,    Marcus, KM5EH  070 714
  On 12/19/2020 8:42 AM, Don - KM4UDX wrote:
  
 
Hello all!  Yours truly will be operating as W4F celebrating the first voice transmission in 1900 this weekend.
 
 If you want to lock in a PSK qso with W4F, feel free to text me at 571-225-6180 or email @ dontay155 at gmail.com.  Otherwise, I'll be on/off the normal psk watering holes over the weekend.
 Summary info below. Full details at qrz.com
 
 This ground breaking transmission was made in December,1900 by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden on Cobb Island, MD, between two masts 50 feet high and over a mile apart.  The first successful transmission of intelligible speech by electromagnetic waves was a critical milestone in the development of radio.  Further developments using a carbon microphone resulted in Fessenden becoming known as the “Father of Amplitude Modulation”.  More on Fessenden can be found at: Reginald Fessenden - Wikipedia
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