RE: [NJARC] Marconi Did Visit Belmar

[fred-carl at infoage.org]

Hello Ray,

   There is a copy of the article online at...

http://www.infoage.org/app-06-30-1913-p1-Marconi-visits-Belmar.html

Thank you,
Fred

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: "Ray Chase" <enrpnr at erols.com>
>To: "NJARC" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:54:45
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>While it has been long believed that Gugielmo
>Marconi actually visited the Belmar Marconi station
>one or more times, the information was hearsay or 
>based on oral histories.  Now Fred Carl has found
>written proof in an Asbury Park Press article of
>Monday, June 30, 1913 describing his visit to
>observe the station under construction.  Marconi
>was satisfied with the progress.  Curiously, at the
>same time a self proclaimed "wireless expert"
>announced that signals from the station would
>render all telephones within a five mile radius
>inoperative unless lines were underground. 
>Marconi, after his return to New York City refuted
>this claim and assured the public that telephone
>service would not be affected.  Easy for him to say
>since Belmar was a receiver site and had no
>transmitters at all.  Sounds like the cell phone
>gloom and doom spouters of today.  I have a copy of
>the article.
>Ray
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