May 25, 2022

Marconi Exhibition in Chelmsford Showcases Early Broadcasting History

May 25, 2022/ Colin Butler

An exhibition celebrating the inventor of radio and the world's first purpose-built radio factory opens next month.

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) will showcase items from Guglielmo Marconi's factory, which opened in 1912 in Chelmsford, Essex.

This year marks 100 years since the world's first regular broadcasts for entertainment began from the Marconi laboratories at nearby Writtle.

The Chelmsford factory closed in 2008 and the site is now a housing estate.

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian wireless pioneer who helped bring radio to the world.

He came to Chelmsford in 1898, at first developing machines to send messages via Morse code for ship and transatlantic communication.

After World War One, Marconi's engineers started looking at broadcasting voices and entertainment

Media Story - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-61515731

May 25, 2022

Radio Amateurs Assist After Hotel Gas Explosion

May 25, 2022/ Colin Butler

Cuban radio amateurs have always distinguished themselves by their expressions of solidarity and their manifestations of help in the face of any disaster situation, going promptly wherever the presence of a helping hand or the deployment of their means of communication has been needed, all of which has contributed to the safeguarding of thousands of human lives and large material resources.

This happened with the presence of a group of 30 of our colleagues who from the provinces of Havana, Artemisa, Villa Clara and Pinar del Río, participated in the general actions of Logistics and rescue and rescue in the capital Hotel Saratoga, after the unfortunate accident destroyed much of the structure of this legendary tourist facility, and will also affect other nearby buildings.

Our colleagues exhibited the vast experience accumulated throughout our country, where they have given their support in the mobilizations of the Defense, the Civil Defense, in the presence of cyclones, various meteorological events, natural disasters and in as many opportunities as they have been summoned by the authorities of the country, integrating into the formations of the Emergency Network in all the municipalities of the nation.