CHILDREN and parents turned out and tuned in to help transform one of Oxford’s museums into an amateur radio station.
The Museum of the History of Science at Broad Street became a pop-up communications hub for the day on Saturday.
Together with the Oxford and District Amateur Radio Society, the museum invited youngsters and their families to celebrate the birth of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi at the free educational day.
Mr Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer who was known for his work on long-distance radio transmission as well as his development of ‘Marconi’s law’ – the relation between antenna heights and signalling distance of radio transmissions.
He also developed a radio telegraph system.
Participants of all ages at the weekend event were invited to sample old technology used to transmit information and to send out signals to fellow amateur radio enthusiasts.
The group were also shown how to send their own message in Morse Code.
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