Radioclub CE7DE El Trauko from Dalcahue in Chiloé island SA-018 commemorating the first wireless communication in America, calling with special callsigns 3G7CW and 3G7RLN.
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Inquiries can be made to the email ce7de@trauko.org or +56 9 9879 4714.
This activity will take place throughout September, with emphasis on the 17th, which was the day in 1898 when Ramón Luis Norero put a wireless telegraphy system into operation.
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While in Europe an Italian was laying the foundations to become the father of wireless telegraphy and radio, in Chile an employee of the Postal and Telegraph Service , Ramón Norero (1870-1952), was also carrying out innovative experiments in wireless telegraphy in the late 1890s.
After successive cuts of the submarine telegraph cable that linked Llanquihue with Chiloé, Norero, in his capacity as Inspector of Telegraphs, managed to solve the problem with electromagnetic waves and without the need for cables . This fact was recorded in a travel report of the Frigate Captain of the Gunboat Pilcomayo, Roberto Maldonado, dated February 7, 1899. Regarding the fact, Captain Maldonado says the following in his report:
“In view of the fact that the telegraph cable that linked Chiloé with Llanquihue, in the Chacao Channel , had been cut repeatedly due to the extraordinary current and the irregular bottom of this channel, on September 17, 1898, the Inspector of Telegraph Offices, Mr. Ramón Luis Norero, established the new system of electromagnetic waves and without wires through the Chacao Channel , for this purpose he established two wire lines on both banks, more or less parallel, 2,000 meters long each between Punta Santa Teresa and Punta Coronel to the North and Punta Gallan and Punta Soledad to the South […] The vibration is transmitted by induction from one line to the other, receiving the alphabetic signals in a phone by the Morse system”.
This system installed by Norero, which in less than six months had already transmitted more than 5,000 telegrams through the Chacao Channel, would be the first telegraphic communication using electromagnetic waves and without wires carried out in America , just one year after Marconi’s demonstration in Europe.