IMD-2012
2012 will see the 25th International Marconi Day event take place. Who could have thought that a chance remark made in my shack in 1986 would have led to such a long running series of very special days with so many operators and Clubs taking the trouble to set up and run stations for the 24hours of the event each year.
At its peak we had around 60 stations participating with at one time 12 call-signs in the Sao Paolo area alone.
We have over the period had participants around England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland plus France, The Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Germany, Portugal, The USA, Canada, S.America, Australia and in the past S.Africa.
For 2012 the date of the event is
21st April 2012
from 0000 to 2359 UTC on the day
To be kept up to date with developments please register on this site (top of the right hand side-bar)and you will receive an E.Mail each time an update is made. If you have an amateur radio call please use this as your user ID when registering as this helps to isolate potential troublt makers registering on the site for disruptive purposes. Please see the appropriate page for the regularly updated list of the stations which have confirmed their participation to us.
Please forgive us if the list contains some mis information but we can only show stations as confirmed when they have contacted us with that information and not all of them are good with the administration side of the event.
Norman Pascoe – G4USB
President of the Cornish Radio Amateur Club & Co-Founder of the International Marconi Day
What is International Marconi Day?
International Marconi Day (IMD) is a 24-hour amateur radio event held annually to celebrate the birth of Guglielmo Marconi on the 25th April 1874. The IMD event is not a contest: it is an opportunity for amateurs around the world to make point-to-point contact with historic Marconi sites using HF communications techniques similar to those used by Marconi, and to gain an attractive Award for achieving the requisite number of Marconi stations worked (see IMD Award ).
IMD is usually held on the Saturday closest to Marconi’s birthday, when amateur radio stations are established and operated from original historic sites, or nearby. These stations are known as the ‘Award Stations’ and are listed on this Web Site. The list is regularly updated as the various stations confirm their availability to operate.
Communications techniques have changed significantly since the days of Marconi’s first experiments, and today, the Internet has become the most widely used of all communications media. However, the spirit of IMD remains basically that of making point-to-point contact between two stations using only the HF bands. The organising Committee of IMD has therefore decided that the use of the Internet to communicate between stations eg using the Internet Relay Linking Project (IRLP) will not count towards the Award.
A few Station Histories have been compiled, and we would like to hear from authorised Award Stations with any interesting details of your particular Marconi Site and, if possible, any original/early photographs. You will see that we have quite a lot, but we would like to build up good profiles of all of you.
If there are other stations out there who have direct historical connections with the great man himself (ie Guglielmo Marconi) and who would like to be added to the list of “Award Stations”, let the webmaster know ; We are sure that there are many more of you who could qualify. But, please remember, to be recognised as an ‘Award Station’, you must show that your location has a DIRECT historical connection with Marconi and his operations during his lifetime. Whether or not you do qualify, please join us on 21st April 2012 and work as many of us as you can within the 24 hour period !!
Visit this siteregularly for more details as they are updated, please help to spread the word about this website, the only OFFICIAL site for International Marconi Day 2011
Cornish Radio Amateur Club
G4CRC / GX4CRC /GB4IMD
We ask all Co-ordinators from the participating stations to register via this site as soon as possible to confirm their participarion in April 2012. We also welcome submission of photograph and station histories ow articles about your IMD experiences for inclusion within the Station Histories section to give visitors to the site as much information as possible.
Stations with a historical connection to Guglielmo Marconi who wish to register as Award Stations for the first time are asked to contact us via the contact us system below as soon as possible, giving details of their connection to G. Marconi between 1896 and 1937.
The Cornish Radio Amateur Club (CRAC) would be most grateful if those stations already registered as Award Stations could confirm to us using the contact us system below in good time advising us whether they will be taking part in the next IMD event
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In the early years of the last cerntury Mr Marconi carried out his experiments at Poldhu with the famous contact across the Atlantic taking place on 12th December 1901. In April 1923, Guglielmo Marconi spent some 10 days aboard his yacht Elettra in Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall. During that time he operated from the yacht,travelled overland to his Poldhu station and entertained the local civic dignatories aboard the Elettra, and demonstrated his equipment to them. The Cornish Radio Amateur Club station represents his Poldhu operations and other activities carried out locally
