The HISTORY OF AMATEUR RADIO


* AMATEUR RADIO HISTORY *



push pin April 27, 1791 ~ Samuel Morse, Inventor of the Morse Code, was born.

push pin January 06, 1838 ~ Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated his telegraph for the first time in Morristown, N.J.

push pin January 8, 1838 ~ The first telegraph message was sent using morse code.

push pin May 24, 1844 ~ Samuel Morse transmitted the world's first telegraph message ("What hath God wrought!") to his associate 40 miles away.

push pin February 22, 1857 ~ Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist who discovered radio waves was born on this day. Hertz is remembered today in terms like kilohertz and megahertz, which give measurements of those radio waves.

push pin April 02, 1872 ~ Samuel F.B. Morse, developer of the electric telegraph, died in New York.

push pin December 11, 1901 ~ Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio signal from Cornwall to Newfoundland.

push pin March 18, 1909 ~ Einar Dessau of Denmark used a shortwave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what's believed to have been the first broadcast by a ham.

push pin August 11, 1909 ~ The liner "Arapahoe" was the first US ship to use the radio distress call "SOS." The ship, finding itself in trouble off the coast of North Carolina, sent out an SOS signal that was received by a nearby ship.

push pin November 19, 1911 ~ New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.

push pin June 19, 1934 ~ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established.

push pin Febuary 1, 1999 ~ Morse Code is replaced by a satellite-based "Mayday" system on all ships over 300 tons which have to carry satellite and radio equipment for sending and receiving distress alerts.

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