Fessenden Special Event Station - GB1FVT

Celebrating the centenary of the first trans-Atlantic voice transmission - GB1FVT will be on air from the orginal Machrihanish transmitting site for two to three days in January, 2006.

The activity is being led by Duncan McArthur, GM3TNT, assisted by a team of Radio Amateurs from the area.

The local group, led by Duncan McArthur and friends, have organised a number of events to mark the centenary of the transmission.

The site at Machrihanish was built by Reginald Fessenden in 1905 and from there the first voice transmissions were sent across the Atlantic. Until then the site had only been using Morse code when, by accident, a voice transmission which was only intended to go between Brant Rock and Cobb Island nearby was received at Machrihanish.

At this station it was the first time CW contacts were repeatedly received BOTH ways across the Atlantic as opposed to Marconi's claimed one way.

QSL via operators' instructions.