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The space in the printed Newsletter is limited. In this section is included items which are only available on-line.

Christmas 2025 at the County Hotel

 Photo by Graham Chorley

Marconi's Carnarvon Station 1912-1939

A very detailed article written John Rowlands, Foreword by Karl-Arne Makstrom, describes the Marconi Carnarvon’s 200 kW timed spark transmitter in 1918. This was the very transmitter that sent the first, non-relay, direct wireless messages between Wales and Australia on September 22nd of that year.

Click here for a link to the article (240 pages, 53Mb file)

 Bodleian Special Collections MS.Photogr.c.243, photo P.2075.