International Marconi Day - Australia

Saturday, April 28th (UTC), is International Marconi Day, and the Hornsby and Districts Amateur Radio Club will be running the only IMD station in Australia using VK2IMD on all HF bands.

This international event is operated by stations in locations
that have a link to Marconi. In the case of VK2IMD, operations are located close to Wahroongah, in the northern suburbs of Sydney, NSW, where Ernest Fisk of AWA received the first direct radio message from Britain to Australia in 1918.

This was a telegram from the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes (who had just returned to Britain, having toured the World War I battlefields in France). It was sent by Marconi's station in Carnarvon, Wales.

Visit the following Web pages for more info:
General info - http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/

List of IMD stations - http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/awardstns.htm

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