Airship America Centenary - K2TQN video

A video of the talk on Airship America and Marconi Wireless Operator Jack Irwin given to the New Jersey Antique Radio Club is now available on the web.

Operating a spark transmitter on a balloon full of Hydrogen gas was itself potentially hazardous!

John Dilks K2TQN, NJARC member, QST Vintage Radio Columnist and recent AWA Houck Award winner gave a superb 50 minute presentation on October 8, 2010, to a meeting of the New Jersey Antique Radio Club (NJARC) held in the Bowen Hall on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton NJ.

Watch the K2TQN Airship America video

The centenary is being commemorated by Radio Amateurs on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) will operate special event station GB100MWT on Sunday, October 17 from the Sandford Mill museum in Chelmsford the "Birthplace of Radio"
http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/events/airship-america/
airship-america.htm

Read the UK IET magazine Airship America story at
http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/1015/airship-wireless.cfm

Airship America Rescue - 100th Anniversary Special Event Operations
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2010/
airship_america_rescue.htm

Jack Irwin had been the Marconi Shore Station Operator at Siasconsett on Nantucket Island and received the CQD distress call sent by Jack Binns during the sinking of the SS Republic on January 23, 1909
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2009/
cqd_jack_binns.htm

Jack Irwin, Marconi Wireless Operator by John Dilks, K2TQN
http://www.njarc.org/jack_irwin_201009.html

The K2TQN.COM website carries pictures and diagrams of Airship America and an article on the Marconi Wireless Telegraph radio operator Jack Irwin that appeared in the QST Vintage Radio column. They can be seen at
http://www.eht.com/oldradio/arrl/2010-08/
Jack%20Irwin%20-%20Marconi%20Wireless%20Man.html
and
http://www.eht.com/oldradio/arrl/2010-09/
Jack-Irwin-First%20Airgoing%20Wireless%20Man.html

Radio played on important role in the Empress of Ireland disaster in 1914, see
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2010/
empress_of_ireland.htm

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