Marconi Meets the 21st Century
The Marconi 2020 Project is bringing the amateur station at the Signal Hill National Historic Site in Newfoundland into the 21st century, helping local amateurs access the station remotely and demonstrating for visitors how far radio communication has come in 120 years.
On May 12, 2021, history was made at the famous site where Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission from Europe to North America, Signal Hill, Newfoundland1 (Photo A). The authors, communicating remotely from different locations and countries, made the inaugural Signal Hill remote radio link contact.
If Marconi were here today, he would have been amazed by the advances in technology over the last 120 years. This article will discuss Marconi’s 1901 experiment at Signal Hill, how the remote link station was set up in Cabot Tower on Signal Hill in 2021, and the support for the project from the
