As a club, OMARC previously sponsors a number of Special Events yearly which honored various events in history regarind the developments or achievements in the futhering of the Radio art.
We continue our tradion of paying tribute to the work of Guglielmo Marconi through our participation in International Marconi Day. For years we held our Marconi Special Events at sites which Marconi used once upon a time as there are so many around the New Jersey shore. We have operated at the base of the Marconi Memorial Tower Site , usually toward the end of May at Shark River, Wall Township, New Jersey, adjacent to the U.S. Army Camp Evans Area. We have operated from the Marconi Hotel at Camp Events in the spring and later in year, toward the end of September, we have operated from the Marconi Wireless Telegraph exhibit at the Twin Lights Historic Site in Highlands, New Jersey, over looking Sandy Hook and the New Jersey coast line.
Now operate as an Official International Marconi Day station and have done so from the Marconi Hotel on and now from the
historic Diana site on Camp Evans itself. For the photos and log as well as pictures of the certificates and QSL cards
for our operation click here
The OMARC Project Diana Special Event
The OMARC Special Events committee in conjunction with the OMARC Board of Directors and the InfoAge Learning Center have decided to add to our list of activities the "Project Diana Special Event" to commemorate the achievement made on 10 January 1946 in the first ever successful Moon Bounce of radio signals.
This event will be widely publicized in the local press as well as the Amateur community. It is anticipated that due to the historic nature of this event, we will likely have a large draw of the non-Amateur public to the site during this event as well as news media.
On 10 January 2004 from 1400Z to 12 January 0000Z the Ocean Monmouth ARC will operate from the historic Diana site to commemorate the first ever successful moon bounce experiment as conducted by the US Army Signal Corps held on 10 January 1946.
OMARC shall operate CW/SSB and possibly other modes in the General and Novice/Technician sub bands of the 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 meter bands and possibly elsewhere.
For a historical perspective refer to the ARRL QST article in the May of 1946 QST titled "A DX Record: To the Moon and Back, How the Moon-Radar Feat was Accomplished" written by Herbert Kaufpman, W20QU
For more information on the Diana Project and for QSL info please visit:
http://www.infoage.org/diana.html
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