Marconi's daughter, radio enthusiasts celebrate 1903 breakthrough

Detroit News ^ | 1-17-03 | Brian Carovillano

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Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Maria Burks is photographed behind a model of Guglielmo Marconi's successful radio towers and transmission station at the National Seashore Headquarters in Wellfleet, Mass. This year marks 100 years since Marconi's first radio transmissions from South Wellfleet across the Atlantic.

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This is for all the FReeper Amateur Radio enthusiasts.... Thanks Guglielmo!

73, de W6BUL

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Huh. On a personal note, I met Elettra Marconi in Rome while we were visiting some old family friends, the Colonnas, back in 1957. She and her friends took us out to a rooftop nightclub somewhere. I still remember one of the dance tunes, "Nel blu delpinto del blu."

I'm glad to hear she is still well. I like her name, which she said her father gave her.

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Ah, "Volare"....from a simpler time.

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Nice personal touch to this centenial.....

"That's how far we've come in 100 years."

From spark gap to Wi-fi. That's a loooong way.

"It rivals the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk,"

I think the progression from first heavier than air flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903 to the Apollo 11 moon landing On July 20, 1969 has to be the all time greatest leap in a human lifetime.

Imagine being about 10 years old in 1903 and hearing the nay sayers shout down the possiblity of heavier than air flight and living to see man walk on the moon some 66 years later.

Well, see them walk on television.....which brings us back to Marconi.....and may bring out the "Moon Landing was a fake!!" crowd. Now I've done it..... Sorry Guglielmo....

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Thanks for posting this. There are still a lot of breakthroughs to come.

73 de KC4YOZ

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Melting the ice off the elements bump!
73 de KC8TMW

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Yep. Let's hope some of 'em are ways to accommodate the dynamic commercial use pressure on the static electromagnetic spectrum...or something like that. The Amateur bands won't be eternally immune from commercial license auction.....and amateurs are innovators.

“Amateur Radio Service.”

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73's to all, now, if only 10 meters was open today, too cool here for anything else.

De KA1IAX KN

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"Every time you dial your cell phone, every time you turn on the car radio and hear a reporter broadcasting live via satellite from Saudi Arabia -- all of that was made possible by what Marconi did," says Maria Burks

Tesla. Hedi Lamarr. A. C. Clarke.

What is this marconi love-fest? Tesla was the one, as it turned out, as usual.

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73s de GVARC

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