Newfoundland, 12-16 August 2003
This is a wide angle view of the mouth of St John's Harbour (almost invisible under the "S" in the word Signal.) This picture was taken from Cape Spear (visible to the far right of the photograph . . . you may have to scroll your browser), which is the most easterly point of land in North America.
Signal Hill is, of course, the location where Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal on 12 December 1901. Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp, heard the faint clicks of Morse code for the letter "s" using a telephone receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite. This signal was transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall, England.
Michael, VE1DUN, standing at the base of Cabot Tower at the crest of Signal Hill. Inside Cabot Tower is the SONRA Amateur Radio Club Station VO1AA.
Below Signal Hill at the mouth of St John's Harbour, Newfoundland
Cape Race on the southern tip of Newfoundland (Amateur Radio Club Station VO1MCE - Cape Race Lighthouse, CAN-118 NA-027.) In 1904 Newfoundland's first wireless station was established at Cape Race, then a second in 1909. Cape Race was the only land-based station to pick up the Titanic's distress call on 14 April 1912.
Portion of the antenna array still operational at the Cape Race radar station.
Last updated on Thursday, 12 April 2007