Marconi_transatlantic_wireless_station_at_Carnarvon,_Wales_1917.jpg
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English:
Exterior view of the 300 kW transatlantic
wireless telegraphy
station built in 1916 by the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co
at Carnarvon, Wales. This was the most powerful
spark radio transmitter
ever built, transmitting commercial radiotelegraphy traffic by
Morse code
on a frequency of 21.5 kHz at a rate of 200 words per minute to receivers in Tuckerton, New Jersey and the RCA Radio Central station, Long Island, New York. The photo shows the 32 feedlines feeding power from the transmitter to the huge 3,600 ft 32 wire flattop antenna suspended between 400 ft towers.
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| Date | |
| Source | Retrieved 14 April 2018 from Elmer Eustice Bucher (1917) Practical Wireless Telegraphy , Wireless Press, Inc., New York, p. 294, fig. 303 on archive.com |
| Author | Elmer Eustice Bucher |
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