Photos from the
Marconi Event |
Marconi Clifden
GREC have been associated with the old Marconi Station located in Derrygimla
near Clifden in Connemara for a number of years. The 100th anniversary of Radio
was celebrated in the summer of 1995 and we ran a number of lectures both in
Galway and Clifden. We also had a HF station in operation during the event and
indeed we had the pleasure of welcoming Elettra Marconi to one of our club meetings.
In October 2007 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Marconi
Station in Derrygimla, Clifden. We operated a station on the original site of the
station and were successful in contacting Glace Bay Radio, the sister station of
Clifden, to commemorate the event. We transmitted and exchanged messages of congratulations
from the President of Ireland Mary McAleese to the Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean.
Our special callsign for the event was EI100MFT, which was eagerly collected by many stations
around the world. Once again Elettra Marconi attended the event and she sent messages of congratulations
to Glace Bay. Our antenna in Derrygimla was a star V-Beam and was ably designed by Zed EI4HG.
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