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USED A KITE TO HOIST HIS RECEIVING ANTENNA ALOFT TO HEAR THE FIRST RADIO
SIGNAL TO EVER SPAN THE ATLANTIC THE SIMPLE MORSE LETTER S.  MARCONI LIKELY
WOULD HAVE BEEN BLOWN AWAY WITH ASTONISHMENT IF HE COULD HAVE SEEN
YOUNGSTERS ON THE CENTENNIAL OF HIS EPOCHAL ACCOMPLISHMENT SITTING WHERE HE
ONCE SAT AND CARRYING ON A RADIO CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE IN A SPACECRAFT.
THE SUCCESSFUL DECEMBER 12 AMATEUR RADIO ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
ARISS CONTACT BETWEEN SPECIAL EVENT STATION VO1S ON SIGNAL HILL,
NEWFOUNDLAND, AND ASTRONAUT FRANK CULBERTSON, KD5OPQ, OPERATING NA1SS IN
SPACE WAS JUST ONE OF THE EVENTS TO CELEBRATE MARCONIS TRANSATLANTIC
RECEPTION IN 1901.  DURING THE CONTACT, 10 STUDENTS GOT TO QUIZ CULBERTSON
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22,119 122 73 C ON7CC 12,894 100 42 C ON4KVA 3,813 50 31 C OT1N ON4ACA,
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