SDRS MARCONI DAY

INTERNATIONAL MARCONI DAY

This event is run by the Cornish Amateur Radio Club.

Full details of the event can be found on their web site at: www.gb4imd.org.uk

10/03/08

2008 - INTERNATIONAL MARCONI DAY is on Saturday the 26th of April

2008 is the 21st anniversary of this event!

(SDRS members and friends set up the station Friday afternoon and dismantle it Sunday morning)

See this new SDRS web site for pictures of the event www.sdrs.zoomshare.com

Each year the South Dorset Radio Society takes part in this event from the site of the original Marconi Radio Station at Dorchester. For a history of the station with photographs follow this link:- Dorchester Beam Station

GB0MBS
e-mail sdrs@g3sds.org.uk

Giuglemo Marconi was born on 25th April 1874 in Bologna, Italy. The Saturday nearest his birthday has for some time been designated in the amateur radio world as 'International Marconi Day'. Amateur Radio Clubs all over the world come on the air with special event callsigns. The South Dorset Radio Society uses GB0MBS (Marconi Beam Station).

Our 'Radio Shack' for the event is located at the New Barn field Centre, Bradford Peverell. (NGR SY 655922) It is very easy to find: take the A37 Yeovil road out of Dorchester and within 2 miles there is a short dual carriageway. (Coming the other way it is just past Grimstone.) Close to where the railway crosses over the road, take the turning on your left which takes you under the railway, over a river and into Bradford Peverell. Almost opposite you the track leading past farm buildings and up to New Barn is signposted. About half a mile up you come to the field centre. Our shack is a hundred yards beyond it, on the right.

The view from New Barn, Bradford Peverell

Had you looked across to the hill in front of you, up to twenty years ago, you would have seen a forest of radio aerials. This was known locally as the Dorchester Beam Station and stretched for hundreds of yards each side of the Bridport road. Located about 1 mile west of Dorchester the 'aerial farm' covered some 460 acres. The main building was what is now the Friary Press.

IMD 2005 Report and Pictures - (GB0MBS)

(GB0MBS Station Manager for 2005 was Jim, G7JIM)

IMD 2004 - Picture Gallery

IMD 2002 - report and pictures IMD 2000 - Picture Gallery

IMD 2003 pictures from Neville, M5NEV (PDF File)

GB0MPB

GB0MPB Station Manager is Robert, G0RYL

NEW STATION FOR 2005 - GB0MPB (Marconi Portland Bill)

Click here for more details

Wireless arrives at Portland Bill (PDF)

2001

The Centenary Year of Transatlantic Wireless Communication