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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 30, 2017
Caption: Providing Global Communications Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) (Left) Guglielmo Marconi, the first to realize the dream of a commercial network of wireless stations "gridling the earth." (Right) The first Marconi-built receiving station at Marshall on Tomales Bay, today the Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park.; (top center) (Left) The RCA Receiving Station in the 1930s and (right) David Sarnoff, Chairman of RCA who started out as a railroad telegrapher.; (bottom center) Denice Stoops is at the key sending a Morse code message from the Bolinas control room. She was the first female radiotelegrapher to work at KPH beginning in the 1970s. Behind her is MRHS Transmitter Chief, Steve Hawes, adjusting controls.; (upper right) Point Reyes National Seashore Superintendent, Cicely Muldoon, gets ready to press the primary power button officially returning the RCA T3 transmitter No. 298 to service in July 2013. Original to the station as completely restored by MRSH it is believed to be the only working transmitter of its type in the world. MRSH members who spent three years on the restoration look on in anticipation.; (lower right) Richard Dillman, founder of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, documents station traffic.
Submitted: April 11, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p379751
File Size: 3.682 Megabytes

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