Maritime Radio Day 2015 – Special Thanks

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Many thanks to all Participants at last edition of Maritime Radio Day 2015. Reading various posts on R/O’s GougleGroup and messages to Organizers this year there has been a great participation with new ships and coast radio callsigns, a special thanks to U.K. R/O’s for activation of special callsigns to remember the great job made by GKA, GKR and GLD during the hundred years of Radio at Sea and to German R/O’s with callsign DL0SFK for commemoration of “Titanic” callsign MGY a very sad story but the MGY tragedy it has been “necessary” to demonstrate against the scetticism of many ship’s owners the extremely importance to fit any kind of ships with a radio room mainly forwaded to the Safety of Life at Sea but not at the last commercial and crews communication with the shore representing a big step in the story of the Shipping where Captains, often owners of the same vessels, should work hard to pick up a cargo in the unloading port to avoid voyages with empty holds.

Have been received messages by radio amateurs congratulating about this event and some of them enjoyed to make QSO’s with special callsigns activated to remember famous Coast Radios and with ship’s callsigns too.

Many thanks to Colleagues from United States, South Africa, Australia, Canary Islands and other Countries far from Europe decided to spend their spare time to be active during MRD 2015.

Great participation from Portugal and our French colleagues didn’t forget to put St.Lys Radio”/FFL and Boulogne Radio”/FFB on the air.

Special thanks to our colleagues in Slovenia, Holland, Scandinavia, Russia and Baltic Republics and to many Italian colleagues always on watch for the Maritime Radio Day and to the crew of IR0IAR had been on the air also this year not only to remember the Rome Radio – IAR history for Italian seafarers but expecially to commemorate R/O Elio FRASSI no longer with us who had worked in Rome Radio for more than 30 years.

Do not forget to send logs with the Summary of: Number of ships, coast radios, special station and ham radios contacted, a personal Certificate of Participation will be released to all of you soon.

We cannot forget the big role and the big work made every year by Radio Officer Rolf MARSCHNER – DL9CM at first as one of the Organizers but expecially as check point for Logs and Certificate delivery.

The picture dedicated to this review shows the Radio Room of Italian Passenger ship “Federico Costa” for long time employed as Liner and then converted as Cruise Ship. The receivers you can see on the image are from Italian factory “MARELLI” and the model is RP42.