On Saturday 22 April, the Naval Technical Museum of La Spezia, in collaboration with the local section of ARI (Italian Amateur Radio Association), will participate in the 35th edition of theInternational Marconi Day.
L'International Marconi Day is an international event, conceived by the English radio amateurs of the "Cornish Amateur Radio Club" based in Cornwall, which intends to annually commemorate the figure of Guglielmo Marconi on the anniversary of his birth, which took place in Bologna on 25 April 1874.
Dozens of radio stations located around the world will broadcast from historical sites linked to the life and scientific activity of the Bolognese scientist.
A station will be set up at the Naval Technical Museum - managed by radio amateurs belonging to the local ARI section (https://www.arilaspezia.it) - which intends to recall and celebrate the historic relationship established between Guglielmo Marconi, the Navy and the city of La Spezia.
It was precisely an area adjacent to the Museum that hosted the first naval radiotelegraphy tests, which culminated, on 17 July 1897, in the first connection between a ground station and a ship, the battleship of the Regia Marina Saint Martin walk, right in the Gulf of La Spezia.
In addition to a vast display of Marconian memorabilia, the Museum also houses the original equipment and tapes (the so-called "telegraph zones") bearing the transcription, in Morse alphabet, of that first historic transmission. For the occasion, they will be shown and described to visitors - in three different appointments, at 10.00, 12.00 and 16.00 With the collaboration of volunteers from the group International Wireless Studiesmoreover, interactive educational laboratories will be set up through which it will be possible to learn notions of terrestrial magnetism and radiotelegraphic transmissions in Morse code.
