Radio Amateurs members of Association of Radio Amateurs of Saint Petersburg will be active with special call R125PR Saint Petersburg, Russia, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of wireless signal transmission demo.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via R1AU.
On March 24, 1896, Alexander Popov completed first ever radio transmission at the Russian Physical and Chemical Society of Saint-Petersburg Imperial University. The radiogram consisting of two words "Henrich Herz" transcended a distance of 250 meters. Alexander Popov was present when indescribable exhilaration seized the audience after the words were received, decoded and chalked out on the blackboard.
This was the world's first transmission of an intelligible text by wireless telegraphy.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via R1AU.
On March 24, 1896, Alexander Popov completed first ever radio transmission at the Russian Physical and Chemical Society of Saint-Petersburg Imperial University. The radiogram consisting of two words "Henrich Herz" transcended a distance of 250 meters. Alexander Popov was present when indescribable exhilaration seized the audience after the words were received, decoded and chalked out on the blackboard.
This was the world's first transmission of an intelligible text by wireless telegraphy.