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| Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk (1886 - 1965) was born
on 8 August, 1886 at Sunbury, Middlesex, England. In June 1906 Fisk joined
the Marconi training school and at Liverpool and Chelmsford he learned Morse
and wireless telegraphy qualifying as a radio engineer and operator. From
1909 he worked for American Marconi, demonstrating wireless to the
Newfoundland sealers and on the St. Lawrence, before returning to Marconi's
administrative headquarters in London. Fisk first visited Australia in mid 1910 to demonstrate Marconi's apparatus for the Orient Steam Navigation Co. and in 1911 he returned to Australia as a resident engineer to represent the interests of the English Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd, trading under several names. In 1916 he became managing director (and in 1932, Chairman) of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, with exclusive rights throughout Australasia to the patents, 'present and future' of both Marconi and Telefunken. At Wahroonga, Sydney on 22 September, 1918, Fisk arranged for the transmission of messages from Britain and demonstrated to the Australian Government that direct wireless communication between Britain and Australia was practicable. Sir Ernest Fisk passed away at his Roseville, Sydney home on 8 July 1965 and will be forever remembered as a radio pioneer in the history of Australian radio. Sir Ernest Fisk is the only direct connection to Marconi in Australia and the Wahroonga Amateur Historical Radio Association (WAHRA) in conjunction with the Hornsby & Districts Amateur Radio Club (HADARC) proudly represents Australia as the only official Australian Amateur Radio Station on International Marconi Day. Sources and Links: From "The Australian Dictionary of Biography"http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bpefisk/fh/ADB.htm
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