Gisborne ‘hams’ celebrate impossible achievement of 100 years ago (New Zealand)

Gisborne amateur radio operator Ivan O’Meara was making waves 100 years ago when he made the first radio contact across the Pacific Ocean to a fellow “ham” 10,000 kilometres away in Argentina.

O’Meara’s achievement was reported not just in the Poverty Bay Herald but in international newspapers including the New York Times, which said the achievement was “claimed to be a world’s amateur radio record”.

Gisborne Amateur Radio Club is commemorating the historic event at its radio rooms at EIT Tairāwhiti Te Pūkenga on the corner of Palmerston Rd and Derby St on Saturday.

The open day runs from 10.30am to 1pm and all interested members of the public are warmly invited.

Read more – New Zealand Herald: https://bit.ly/44GIirj