On The International Marconi Day This Morning On 7145kHz lsb

Today is the International Marconi Day. It is an annual 24 hour amateur radio event  held on the saturday closed to the April 25th , the brith day of Guglielmo Marconi in 1874, the inventor/father  of the Radio. It has been organised by  Cornish Radio Amateur Club,UK since 1988. It is being celebrated to honour the pioneering  achievements of Guglielmo Marconi in the field of long distance radio transmission( the first  transatlantic radio signal in 1901 from Poldhu, Cornwall in England to St.John's, Newfoundland in Canada)  & his Nobel Prize in Physics for Wirless Telegraphy Development in 1909.On this day amateur radio operators try to contact special amateur radio stations active on various historic sites related to Marconi such as Cornish in UK & others worldwide.

You can check on the internet for more detail information on International Marconi Day & the life and works of Guglielmo Marconi plus  various historical sites around the world related to Marconi.

Here is my monitoring report on the International Marconi Day morning on 40mb amateur band on 7145kHz lsb.

RIG: Yaesu FT891

External Antenna:End Feed Long Wire 

Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri,NL56hi

Latitude: 26° 20' 31" N

Longitude:090° 39' 34" E

Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)

(For All Monitoring Activites)

Monitor's Notes:

All time mentioned  in Indian Standard Time(ist) & all reports scale as per RST scale parameters(with human touch on some cases)

> indicating onwards ,amateur station's location mentioned as per info available in QRZ.COM & as heard on air etc in first bracket after callsign as far as possible followed by Signal Report in RST scale plus report by ear(in RST Scale), ? sign has been put on info with doubt, some additional information &  plus monitoring observations may be added

There may be some errors here & there in reporting time & callsigns etc, I hope it will be taken in amateur spirits.I am working on consistently in improving my reports & posts. 

Date:25/04/26

WX:Cloudy, thunders heard later, light rain

7145kHz lsb

0737ist>VU3LGT (Asansol) S7 QSB, VU2TLW (Uttarpara, Kolkata) S5 QSB, strong tuning tone   heard for a few seconds-someone tuning, no response from VU2TLW later in response of AR from VU3LGT, brief silence , atmospheric static noise heard during entire monitoring period, Noise Level S2-S3, heard breaking call of VU2PWD at 0740ist with moderate signal strength, no one heard, 

0743ist>VU2TLW Calling ..no response heard from  anyone, 

0746ist>VU3LGT S5, VU2TLW S3-S5 , both the stations heard with slight QSB, at 0750ist VU2TLW going QRT , 

0750ist:

VU3LGT on CQ call S7,

0753ist>VU3LGT ON CQ call S7 QSB, at 0754ist heard breaking call of VU2XH, 

0754ist>VU3LGT S7, VU2XH(Patna)S7, VU2VFC(Patna) S5-S7, all three stations heard with slight QSB, at 0757ist heard someone tuning by whistling , at 0801ist heard  VU2TKC breaking, 

0801ist>VU2TKC (Uttarpara, Kolkata) S7-S9, VU3LGT S5 QSB, VU2XH S6 QSB, VU2VFC S5 QSB, heard breaking call of 9N1CA at 0804ist, 

0804ist>VU2XH S7 QSB, 9N1CA (Nepal) S5 QSB, VU2TKC S7, VU3LGT S5 QSB, VU2VFC S5-S7, (at 0812ist both VU2XH & VU2VFC going QRT), 

0812ist>9N1CA S5, VU3LGT S5, VU2TKC S7, all stations heard  with slight QSB ,(at 0813ist VU2TKC went QRT, at 0814ist 9N1CA went QRT too), at 0814ist heard breaking call of VU3NYV & VU2DLU, 

0814-0824ist:

VU3LGT S5, VU3NYV (Shillong) S8, VU2DLU (New Barrackpore, Kolkata) S5, all the three stations noted with slight  QSB ,
Due to thundering , I stopped monitoring & took other necessary precaution viz. like disconnecting antenna from the RIG etc. 

More reports/observations plus more amateur radio related news etc soon.

73 

DE VU3WTI (Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK) 

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)