100 years of Royal Naval Radio

This weekend sees the Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society celebrating 100 years of wireless telegraphy in the Royal Navy.

HMS Ganges Association will be holding a reunion at the Savoy Hotel, Bournemouth, lasting from Friday until Monday.

Many thousands of Boy and Junior Telegraphists, later known as Radio Officers, ROs, were trained at HMS Ganges, near Harwich, from 1907 until the establishment closed in 1976.

Celebrations will include displays of antique equipment, a visit to the Royal Army Signals Museum at Blandford, and a black tie dinner.

At 3pm on Sunday 28 October, GB100WT will be used to re-create Marconi's historic first transmission across the water from Bournemouth to Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight.

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB