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The New Brunswick Naval Radio Station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe, using the callsign NFF. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted by NFF in 1918. Ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US stations, were transferred from the Navy to RCA in 1920.
At this location, now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore (though no admission is charged if not visiting Marconi Beach), inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210-foot (64 m) wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to ...
Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902. [1] The site features the remnants of Marconi's transmission towers, a modern amateur radio station ...
Marconi Wireless Station Site (South Wellfleet, Massachusetts), from 1901 to 1917; Marconi–RCA Wireless Receiving Station, from 1914 to the 1990s Chatham Marconi Maritime Center, a museum and WA1WCC amateur radio station site
The Radio Act of 1912 instituted radio station licensing, and further required that shore stations open to general public service "shall be bound to exchange radiograms with any similar shore station and with any ship station without distinction of the radio system adopted by such stations". [6] American Marconi's growth in the United States ...
Ground was broken for the site on April 9, 1913, by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. [2] Although the station was completed in 1914 [3] Marconi's planned commercial use for communication with his receiver station in Tywyn, Wales never took place because of the onset of World War I but was finally initiated by RCA on March 1, 1920.
The Marconi-RCA Bolinas Transmitting Station, on Mesa Road in Bolinas, Marin County, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [1] The station was built in 1914 by Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) and taken over by RCA after World War I. [2] It is one of six Point Reyes sites listed on the National Register in ...
In 1914, inventor Guglielmo Marconi sought a more permanent solution to his weather-induced radio station woes on Cape Cod. This need was made manifest by the damage and destruction wrought by nature at his original 1903 South Wellfleet location. [1] The erosion and wind damage suffered by Marconi's first Cape Cod station continues to this day.