{"id":5293,"date":"2026-04-24T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:33:41","slug":"international-marconi-day-imd-honoring-marconi-on-his-150th-birthday-april-27-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/international-marconi-day-imd-honoring-marconi-on-his-150th-birthday-april-27-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"International Marconi Day (IMD) April 25th, 2026&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"biodata\"><strong>International Marconi Day <\/strong>celebrates the huge part Guglielmo Marconi played in the invention of radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMD is a 24 hour amateur radio event that is held annually to celebrate the birth of Marconi on 25 April 1874. The event is usually held on the Saturday closest to Marconi\u2019s birthday and in 2026 it will be held on 25th April, his birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the day is for amateur radio enthusiasts from around the world to make contact with&nbsp;<strong><em>Historic Marconi Sites<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;using communication techniques similar to those used by Marconi himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Period of Operation on:<br>April 25th 2026<br>0000 UTC to 2359 UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AWARD Info:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/veron.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marconi_supporters_award_rules.pdf\">https:\/\/veron.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marconi_supporters_award_rules.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMD.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMD.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMD-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMD-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMD-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMD-270x270.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Marconi Day celebrates the huge part Guglielmo Marconi played in the invention of radio. IMD is a 24 hour amateur radio event that is held annually to celebrate the birth of Marconi on 25 April 1874. The event is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/international-marconi-day-imd-honoring-marconi-on-his-150th-birthday-april-27-2024\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}