Radio Amateurs members of the USKA-Valais-Wallis section, HB9Y will be active using special call sign HB150GM from Salvan, Valais, Switzerland, April - December 2024, commemorating 150th Anniversary of Birthday of Guglielmo Marconi.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via HB9Y buro.
Information from their QRZ page:
1895 : Guglielmo Marconi and his first experiments in Salvan (Switzerland) by Yves Fournier, historian
Since a very early age, Guglielmo Marconi had a passion for sciences and in 1894 he became obsessed after reading an article describing Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves. Marconi was then vacationing at Andorno near Santuario di Oropa in the italian Alps and he immediately started to develop a system using these waves to communicate without wire.
It is most probably the following summer, in 1895, that Marconi came to the health resort of Salvan (Switzerland), already famous beyond our borders. With the help of a teenager from Salvan, Maurice Gay-Balmaz, Marconi worked for more than a month and a half within the surrounding areas and successfully sent a message farther than a kilometer away. Wireless was born.
The young Guglielmo Marconi, son of a wealthy Italian landowner and an Irishwoman whose family owned several whiskey distilleries in Dublin, was born on April 25, 1874, in Bologna.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, a special call sign has been allocated by OFCOM to the Marconi Foundation in Salvan and will be used by HB9Y, the USKA-Valais-Wallis section from April to December 2024.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via HB9Y buro.
Information from their QRZ page:
1895 : Guglielmo Marconi and his first experiments in Salvan (Switzerland) by Yves Fournier, historian
Since a very early age, Guglielmo Marconi had a passion for sciences and in 1894 he became obsessed after reading an article describing Hertz's experiments on electromagnetic waves. Marconi was then vacationing at Andorno near Santuario di Oropa in the italian Alps and he immediately started to develop a system using these waves to communicate without wire.
It is most probably the following summer, in 1895, that Marconi came to the health resort of Salvan (Switzerland), already famous beyond our borders. With the help of a teenager from Salvan, Maurice Gay-Balmaz, Marconi worked for more than a month and a half within the surrounding areas and successfully sent a message farther than a kilometer away. Wireless was born.
The young Guglielmo Marconi, son of a wealthy Italian landowner and an Irishwoman whose family owned several whiskey distilleries in Dublin, was born on April 25, 1874, in Bologna.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, a special call sign has been allocated by OFCOM to the Marconi Foundation in Salvan and will be used by HB9Y, the USKA-Valais-Wallis section from April to December 2024.