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GB3SSS TO MAKE REGULAR ONE MINUTE TRANSMISSIONS ON 1960 KHZ WHILE RADIO
AMATEURS IN CANADA AND THE USA TRIED TO COPY AND ANALYZE THE TRANSMISSIONS.
BUT WHY ALL THE FUSS?  WHY SHOULD THERE HAVE BEEN ANY DOUBT IN THE FIRST
PLACE?  KEITH MATTHEW, G0WYS, POLDHU ARCS CLUB SECRETARY EXPLAINED NO ONE
REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE WHAT FREQUENCY MARCONIS TRANSMISSIONS WERE ON.
MARCONI HIMSELF WAS EVASIVE CONCERNING THE ACTUAL FREQUENCY.  BUT IN A
LECTURE IN 1903 AMBROSE FLEMING SAID THAT THE WAVELENGTH WAS 1000 FEET OR
MORE 810 870 KHZ IS GENERALLY THE QUOTED FREQUENCY.  BUT IN 1908, MARCONI
SAID IN A LECTURE TO THE ROYAL INSTITUTION THAT THE WAVELENGTH WAS 1,200
FEET, AND IN A RECORDED LECTURE IN THE EARLY 1930S HE CHANGED HIS STORY TO
APPROXIMATELY 1,800 METERS 166 KHZ.  AT THE SAME LECTURE HE QUOTED THE
TRANSMITTER POWER AS BEING 15 KW.  WHATEVER THE FREQUENCY WAS, THE TESTS
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STATION AT ARRL HQ W1AW W1HQ 804 2 30 3,554 CT TRI TOWN RAC W9VT 796 2 30
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