Claiming your Award 

Classes of Award

Award Stations

Station Histories

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 26th April 2008 and work as many of us as you can within the 24 hour period !!

Watch this site for more details as they come in, and please help to spread the word about this website, the only OFFICIAL site for  International Marconi Day 2008

Organised by the Cornish Radio Amateur  Club (GB4IMD)

http://www.cornishradioamateurclub.org.uk

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