Saturday 22 April the great international event to remember the illustrious scientist Guglielmo Marconi
For the occasion, radio amateurs from all over the world will activate commemorative stations from the places where the great Italian scientist carried out experiments related to the world of radio. At the Geosciences Museum of Rocca di Papa of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) the IY0ORP Marconi station will be put into operation, a special callsign issued by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) through which all radio amateurs in the world will be able to connect over the air with the Museum of Geosciences. The event, organized by the (CRAC) takes place every year, over an entire day, on the Saturday before 25 April, the date on which the Nobel prize winner Marconi was born. Sponsored by the Italian Amateur Radio Association (ARI), the event sees the participation of our country on the initiative of Roberto Alaimo (Roberto IS0JMA), through the Coordination of Italian Marconian Stations (CSMI), the national organization of radio stations born in order to coordinate, promote, raise awareness and publicize the activities of the stations from their respective sites to raise awareness of the work of the IY Stations in the radio field, as well as highlight the technical, cultural, historical and educational profile. On 22 April at the Geosciences Museum of Rocca di Papa, a radio station will be installed which will operate on the bands granted to radio amateurs. The station will include two-way radios and antennas to operate in both voice and morse code (CW). Guglielmo Marconi, as part of an experiment on the emission of high-frequency waves presented in a speech at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, created a connection between the radio station installed in Rocca di Papa at the former Geophysical Observatory (now is the Museum managed by INGV) and the station installed at Capo Figari at Golfo Aranci in Sardinia. The experiment was successful and paved the way for applications that use those frequencies, allowing the development of two-way communications such as those of modern cell phones. The IY0ORP call, issued by the MISE in 1992 to the current President of the ARI of Rome Luciano I0JBL, who operated from the Rocca di Papa Geophysical Observatory connecting the radio station installed at Capo Figari managed by Roberto IS0JMA, is active and managed by radio amateurs of the ARI section of Frascati. William Thorossian, Senior Electronic Development Engineer at INGV, created the podcast 'The history of amateur radio', to accompany the event celebrated together with the CRAC. The voice of our William will lead to the discovery of one of the oldest telecommunications services in the world, which saw the light at the dawn of the twentieth century and which still continues to excite everywhere today.
For the occasion, radio amateurs from all over the world will activate commemorative stations from the places where the great Italian scientist carried out experiments related to the world of radio. At the Geosciences Museum of Rocca di Papa of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) the IY0ORP Marconi station will be put into operation, a special callsign issued by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) through which all radio amateurs in the world will be able to connect over the air with the Museum of Geosciences. The event, organized by the (CRAC) takes place every year, over an entire day, on the Saturday before 25 April, the date on which the Nobel prize winner Marconi was born. Sponsored by the Italian Amateur Radio Association (ARI), the event sees the participation of our country on the initiative of Roberto Alaimo (Roberto IS0JMA), through the Coordination of Italian Marconian Stations (CSMI), the national organization of radio stations born in order to coordinate, promote, raise awareness and publicize the activities of the stations from their respective sites to raise awareness of the work of the IY Stations in the radio field, as well as highlight the technical, cultural, historical and educational profile. On 22 April at the Geosciences Museum of Rocca di Papa, a radio station will be installed which will operate on the bands granted to radio amateurs. The station will include two-way radios and antennas to operate in both voice and morse code (CW). Guglielmo Marconi, as part of an experiment on the emission of high-frequency waves presented in a speech at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, created a connection between the radio station installed in Rocca di Papa at the former Geophysical Observatory (now is the Museum managed by INGV) and the station installed at Capo Figari at Golfo Aranci in Sardinia. The experiment was successful and paved the way for applications that use those frequencies, allowing the development of two-way communications such as those of modern cell phones. The IY0ORP call, issued by the MISE in 1992 to the current President of the ARI of Rome Luciano I0JBL, who operated from the Rocca di Papa Geophysical Observatory connecting the radio station installed at Capo Figari managed by Roberto IS0JMA, is active and managed by radio amateurs of the ARI section of Frascati. William Thorossian, Senior Electronic Development Engineer at INGV, created the podcast 'The history of amateur radio', to accompany the event celebrated together with the CRAC. The voice of our William will lead to the discovery of one of the oldest telecommunications services in the world, which saw the light at the dawn of the twentieth century and which still continues to excite everywhere today.
