{"id":636693,"date":"2019-11-06T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=636693"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:36:00","slug":"w1aw-to-commemorate-98th-anniversary-of-first-amateur-radio-signals-to-span-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=636693","title":{"rendered":"W1AW to Commemorate 98th Anniversary of First Amateur Radio Signals to Span the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>December 11 marks the 98th anniversary of the success of ARRL\u2019s <strong>Transatlantic Tests<\/strong> in 1921, organized to see if low-power amateur radio stations could be heard across the Atlantic using shortwave frequencies (i.e., above 200 meters). On that day, a message transmitted by a group of Radio Club of America members at 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was copied by Paul Godley, 2ZE, in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Whil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/w1aw-to-commemorate-98th-anniversary-of-first-amateur-radio-signals-to-span-the-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">W1AW to Commemorate 98th Anniversary of First Amateur Radio Signals to Span the Atlantic<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 11 marks the 98th anniversary of the success of ARRL\u2019s Transatlantic Tests in 1921, organized to see if low-power amateur radio stations could be heard across the Atlantic using&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}