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ODARS and International Marconi Day, 24 April 2021

Posted: 24 Apr 2021 09:58 AM PDT
http://www.odars.org.uk/odars-and-in...24-april-2021/






















Guglielmo Marconi, portrait, head and shoulders, facing left.





On Saturday 24th April 2021 we are participating in International Marconi
Day, celebrating Marconis birthday. Many of the other special event
stations on the air will be transmitting from locations around the world
which had some significance to Marconi, so what has Oxford got to do with
him?




Well, he did receive an honorary degree from the University in 1904, but it
was 100 years later that the large Marconi collection was presented to the
Museum of the History of Science, as it was called then, and to the
Bodleian Library. A selection of his most significant early apparatus is on
display in the museum and can be viewed when it reopens in May. ODARS was
invited to the original opening of the collection in 2005 and have put on a
station at the museum most years since.




This year, of course, we have the pandemic and so we have asked OFCOM if we
could use the special event callsign from our home stations, and this has
been approved. So we are Working DX from Home, or at least trying to. The
museum asked me to look into ways the public could be involved, as they
could when we operated from the physical museum, and here is what we came
up with.




Anyone may visit a web site called dxsummit.dx and put the special call
sign GB4MHS into the search box. The most recent entry will have our
current operating frequency. If you happen to have a shortwave receiver
that can handle single sideband you should then be able to find us.




However, if you dont have a receiver you can use an Internet one. Just
visit http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ and enter the frequency. You may
have to select USB or LSB depending on the wave band in use. Good luck and
let us know if you hear us!




See https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/marconi-day-0 for more details.The post ODARS
and International Marconi Day, 24 April 2021 first appeared on ODARS.