Marconi Radio Station YXQ Ballybunion Anniversary Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience

On the 19th of March 1919 Marconi Radio Station YXQ transmitted the first East to West Voice Speech Transmission from a wireless station on Sandhill Road Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland to a receiving station at Louisbourg Cape Breton Nova Scotia Canada.

Transmissions were successful with Marconi Engineer W T Dirchem’s voice heard at Cape Breton Nova Scotia Canada using pioneering Valve technology and a Telephony transmitter.

Prior to the Marconi Company and engineers arriving in Ballybunion, the station was owned and operated by Universal Radio Syndicate LTD of London using pioneering Arc Technology designed by Vladamar Poulsen inventor. 

 

This station transmitted morse messages during the first  world War to its sister station at New Castle New Brunswick in Canada. Ballybunion YXQ augmented the war effort and played her part as a wireless station after this period our story of YXQ Station begins.

Danny Houlihan has researched the station over the years from documents and ground research and has to date uncovered more and more history , quote I am convinced the story of this famous wireless station will be transmitted for hundreds of years to come unquote.

This episode is just but a brief transmission of the stations history and will be updated accordingly and is dedicated to all Marconi local workers and those in Canada.

After 103 years technology has advanced to a stage that to build a Trans -Atlantic Station like Ballybunion and New Castle New Brunswick would have cost in the region of 250,000 English Sterling each in 1912, now we can webcasts globally for several thousand pounds.

This episodes proves it, as this show is being streamed today around the globe from Ballybunion YXQ Wecasting Radio Talk Show home to Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience.

The YXQ  Journey Lives on. (Music Danny Houlihan Low Whistle Pipes

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