[CQ-Contest] Marconi was Irish

Jim Brown k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri Mar 17 16:15:47 EDT 2023


There have been more than a few subjects of people with Irish ancestry 
in Dr. Henry Louis Gates's wonderful PBS series, "Finding Your Roots."

73, Jim K9YC

  On 3/17/2023 10:41 AM, Leeson wrote:
> On this Saint Patrick's Day, let those of us so inclined raise a glass 
> of Jameson's to Guglielmo Marconi: We hunt for our own pot o' gold at 
> the end of an ionospheric rainbow, enjoying radio that owes so much to 
> Marconi, whose Irish mother, Annie Jameson, supported his efforts with 
> her share of the Jameson whiskey monies.



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