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John Hill:
Joe, visiting Glace Bay would have been something to remember, is there any trace of the original installations left? Maybe just big concrete blocks from the tower anchors?


Here is my friend Mike, ZL2BCW, looking very pleased that we had at last found the stone marking the place where a farmer in New Zealand made a number of contacts with a school boy in England in 1924.  Of course they were on HF (80 metres maybe?) and their achievement plus that of amateurs in other parts of the world turned the science of long distance radio communications on its ear.  No more huge towers, steam driven synchronous alternators and spark gaps!

75Plus:
John, If I can find it I have a video that I made on that "DXpedition". If I find the video I will look into converting it to a DVD and make copies available.

The museum there has some original artifacts, including spark gap transmitters, and lots of pictures. I enjoyed it so much I went back a couple more times.

BTW the site was only at Glace Bay for a couple of years. It was disassembled and moved to the town of Port Morien, if memory serves. I think the elevation was better and it was not quite as exposed to the awful coastal weather in the winter.

 This site has a good write up of this subject.

http://ns1763.ca/marconi100/marconi1.html

Joe

Weston Bye:
KB8UKS here - though I haven't been active in the last few years - just the very occasional Skywarn activity on 2 meters.  Machining and writing have taken its place.  Even back then, I was building and writing - I did a series of articles on a simple radio direction finder for my club newsletter.  If there is enough intrest, I could post the gist of it here, even though no machining was involved in the original design.

Bernd:
Wes,

Who says it needs to be machineable related. Remember the term  :proj: If it fits do it.

Bernd

Darren:
I became interested in this scene some years ago. But shortly after software became available to "talk" to anyone anywhere over the internet.

Now we have Skype which is very clear.  


I wonder how much damage this caused to the radio scene. A lot I'd imagine, they even relaxed the rules quite a bit to try to coax in new members if I remember rightly?

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