In the world of international telecommunications the goal or benchmark always seems to have been crossing the Atlantic. The next goal has been the desire for greater bandwidth.
I mentioned earlier the anniversaries of Poldhu and Goonhilly, but in 2003 a another anniversary slipped away un-noticed. That was the closure of Bodmin Radio Station which closed after 75 years of operation, the significance being that it was the first Marconi Beam Station that essentially proved the operation of long distance HF for reliable telecommunications.
Personally it concerns me that whilst a lot of our industrial heritage has been preserved in the form of working systems, such as mills, steam and automotive power, aviation etc, Preservation of this type of radio equipment or perhaps even a working radio station is very rare and non existent in this country.
Perhaps radio waves do not excite people in the way a gleaming steam engine does! But the technology has had just as great an impact on the world we live in.
Anyway I will leave it at that,
Thank you………
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