GB100MGY

England (Zone 14):  Contacts on 40M and 30M CW were made on April 10th and 11th 2012 with the special event station GB100MGY commerating the 100th anniversary of the loss of the RMS Titanic and Jack Phillips, the Chief Marconi Wireless Officer of  RMS Titanic.  The QSL manager was G3SXW.

MGY was the call-sign of the Marconi radio station on-board the Titanic.  It was equipped with a 5 KW motor alternator supplying rotary spark transmission to a four wire T aerial 250 feet above sea level and resonant at 600 meters.  The receiver was a magnetic detector which pre-dated crystal receivers and multi-element vacuum tube designs.