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    My Friend “Elmo” – Personal Recollections of Guglielmo Marconi

    Jan 01, 2020 8 minutes
    BY WALT STINSON,* W0CP

    As we look back 75 years to the founding of CQ magazine, WØCP takes us back even further, to the very first radio amateur, Guglielmo Marconi, through a bit of historical fiction in the voice of one of Marconi’s childhood friends…

    I recently read the fascinating new biography of Guglielmo Marconi by Marc Raboy, Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. I was struck once again by how profoundly radio has changed our civilization, connecting us in ways never before imaginable — ways that we take for granted today. I was also struck by the parallels between Marconi and many of the technology giants of our day: Gates, Jobs, and Musk, just to name a few. That Marconi’s worldwide fame and stature surpassed them all is a fact obscured by time. This is known: Radio transmissions worldwide went silent for two minutes at 1700 GMT on July 22, 1937, during Marconi’s funeral ceremony. What went into being the first to discover the potential of radio, to envision what it could become, and to launch a revolutionary new industry before the age of 21? We learn some of the answers in this fictionalized account of Guglielmo’s (“Elmo’s”) youth as told through the eyes of his childhood best friend. – WØCP

    Everybody wants to know about Guglielmo, now that he’s dead and

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