[NJARC] Marconi Did Visit Belmar

[Al Klase]

Fred,

I read down to the bottom line.  Our "Marconi Slept Here" plaque is 
missing.  That would be too cool!

Al

fred-carl at infoage.org wrote:
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> Hello Ray,
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>    There is a copy of the article online at...
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> http://www.infoage.org/app-06-30-1913-p1-Marconi-visits-Belmar.html
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> Thank you,
> Fred
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>> ----- ------- 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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