Ham Radio Day

Name: Ham Radio Day
Start: 2024-09-21T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-21T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Painesville Railroad Museum

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 09:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Painesville Railroad Museum | Painesville, OH

Join us for a fun day of Trains, Model Trains and Ham Radio on September 21, 2024 from 10 am to 3 pm.
In the early days of railroading, communications with trains was done with telegraph using Morse Code. Train orders would be telegraph from station to station and then handed off to the trains.
Spend the day railfanning, learning how the telegraph works and see operating Ham Radio station.
The Telegraph was invented in the 1830 for long distance communications. Morse code was used via wires. As the railroads provided paths through the America’s, it made since to use the railroad beds for the telegraph poles and wires. As radio was invented, it was discovered that Morse code would transmit much farther than voice. Even today, amateur radio operators (HAM) still use Morse Code.