ARLA/CLUSTER: Estação comemorativa do Dia Internacional de Marconi realiza mais de 100 contactos com 26 entidades

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Caister Marconi radio station contacts more than 100 amateurs in 26
countries

Radio hams at Caister Lifeboat in Norfolk managed to contact 116 other
radio amateurs in 23 different countries on Saturday 22nd April 2018 when
they took part in the annual *International Marconi Day* (IMD) event to
mark the inventor's birthday.

Using the call GB0CMS and a mixture of Morse code, telephony (speech) and
data (FT8), contacts were made with other radio amateurs across the UK,
Europe, and the USA.

Notable contacts were made with other IMD stations in Italy, Ireland,
Weston-Super-Mare and Poldhu, Cornwall – home of the Marconi Centre from
where the inventor made the first transatlantic transmission in 1901.


Chris Danby (callsign G0DWV) on the microphone, chats to another radio
amateur during International Marconi Day while Roger Cooke G3LDI looks on

The *Norfolk Amateur Radio Club* (NARC) ran the all-day special event
station at Caister Lifeboat to commemorate the village's original Marconi
Wireless Station, which was established at Caister in 1900. The station was
in a house in the High Street known as Pretoria Villa and its original
purpose was to communicate with ships in the North Sea and the Cross Sands
lightship.

On Saturday, the closest to Guglielmo Marconi's birthday, stations around
the world are set up at sites with historical links to the inventor's work.
These include Poldhu in England; Cape Cod Massachusetts; Glace Bay, Nova
Scotia; Villa Griffone, Bologna, Italy and many others.

Visitors to the station including many other local radio amateurs and
members of the public.

NARC public relation officer Steve Nichols, who organised the event, said:
“Conditions weren’t brilliant due to a major solar disturbance, but we were
still able to cross the Atlantic on three occasions.

“ We made contacts with other radio enthusiasts all over Europe and as far
as Asiatic Russia using speech, Morse code and a new highly-efficient FT8
digital mode that Marconi could have only dreamed of.

“We never used more than 100 Watts power – about the same as an
incandescent light bulb.

“ Our thanks go to Caister Lifeboat again for letting us set up the
station.�
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The equipment used was 100W maximum from an Icom IC-7400 (20m) and an Icom
IC-7300 (80/40/30m). Antennas were a W5GI dipole on 40m and G0KYA-designed
monoband end-fed half-wave verticals for HF. The FT8 digital mode was used
for the first time to show what can be worked with just 20-25W.


* About Norfolk Amateur Radio Club:*The club has more than 100 members, a
strong history dating back to the 1950s and has a very active calendar of
talks, events, special event stations and courses.

It meets at 7.00pm on Wednesdays at the Sixth Form Common Room, City of
Norwich School, Eaton Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 6PP, with formal
proceedings starting at 7.45pm.

The programme alternates weekly between talks or club challenges, and
informal meetings with Morse tuition, electronic construction and “Bright
Sparks� events for youngsters.
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