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    Nov 01, 2021 4 minutes

    Multiple Events Planned for Centennial of “Transatlantic Tests”

    Next month will mark the 100th anniversary of the 1921 “Transatlantic Tests” that signaled the beginnings of international shortwave communications via amateur radio, and many events and activities are planned to mark the occasion, including an article here in CQ next month.

    The ARRL and RSGB (Radio Society of Great Britain) are jointly sponsoring several events, according to the ARRL Letter. The first will be the Transatlantic Centenary QSO Party on 160 meters between 0200 and 0600 UTC on December 12th, the date on which ARRL’s Paul Godley, 2ZE, at a station set up in Androssan, Scotland, successfully

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