YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
A group of radio amateurs gathered earlier this month at W1AW to mark the 98th anniversary of the successful ARRL Transatlantic Tests.
December, 1921, a message transmitted by a group of Radio Club of America members at 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was copied by Paul Godley, 2ZE, in Scotland. Reporting on the accomplishment, ARRL Secretary Kenneth B. Warner, 1EH, declared “Excelsior!”
Clark Burgard, n1BCG — who lives in Greenwich and fashions his call sign as, lower case n, figure ONE then upper case BCG to honour the original 1BCG — was among those on hand at the Maxim Memorial Station.
“We completed a successful special event at W1AW commemorating the 98th anniversary of the Transatlantic Tests,” Burgard recounted.
“This was particularly important historically to amateur radio as it was originally organized by the ARRL in 1921 to determine if low-power amateur radio stations using shortwave frequencies could actually be heard in Europe. Until then, it was thought impossible.”
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