Amateur radio enthusiasts gathered on Wednesday to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi.
Marconi was a famous inventor and Nobel Prize for physics winner.
The event took place at the Marconi Museum on the Lizard Peninsula, where Marconi did a lot of his work.
In 1901 he achieved a significant milestone, the first ever transatlantic communication from Poldhu to Newfoundland in Canada.
Poldhu Amateur Radio Station was on air talking all around the world as part of the event.
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