BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20190801T230000Z DTEND:20190802T003000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:“From Short Waves To Satellites”\, with Bill Farris DESCRIPTION:With an act of Congress in November 1978\, the handwriting was on the wall for the end of Chatham Radio/WCC. Under Public Law 95-564\, "The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Maritime Satellite Organization (hereinafter in this title referred to as 'INMARSAT') in order to develop and operate a global maritime satellite telecommunications system." INMARSAT was established in 1979 to serve the maritime industry by developing satellite communications for ship management and distress and safety applications. Bill Farris\, the last Manager at Chatham Radio/WCC and later a Global Technical Support Engineer for INMARSAT\, describes how satellite communication put commercial maritime short wave radio (including WCC) out of business over the final 2 decades of the 20th Century\, and led to other invaluable services such as the Global Positioning System (GPS).\n\nChatham Marconi Maritime Center is pleased to host its 2019 Summer Speaker Series\, a summer-long series of lectures and presentations drawn from the resources of the Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum\, the Summer Science program\, and member-suggested topics related to our mission. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
 \;With an act of Congress in November 1978\, the handwriting was on the wall for the end of Chatham Radio/WCC. \; Under Public Law 95-564\, &ldquo\;The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Maritime Satellite Organization (hereinafter in this title referred to as '\;INMARSAT'\;) in order to develop and operate a global maritime satellite telecommunications system.&rdquo\; \; INMARSAT was established in 1979 to serve the maritime industry by developing satellite communications for ship management and distress and safety applications. \; Bill Farris\, the last Manager at Chatham Radio/WCC and later a Global Technical Support Engineer for INMARSAT\, describes how satellite communication put commercial maritime short wave radio (including WCC) out of business over the final 2 decades of the 20th Century\, and led to other invaluable services such as the Global Positioning System (GPS).
\n\nChatham Marconi Maritime Center is pleased to host its 2019 Summer Speaker Series\, a summer-long series of lectures and presentations drawn from the resources of the Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum\, the Summer Science program\, and member-suggested topics related to our mission.  \;
\n LOCATION:Programs will be presented in its air conditioned Education Center at 831 Orleans Road\, North Chatham MA 02650 (the large brick building on Route 28 opposite Ryder's Cove) unless otherwise noted. Seating space is limited. If it appears that a particular talk may attract interest which would overwhelm Chatham Marconi's limited seating capacity\, the event may be moved to a larger nearby venue with as much advance notice provided as is possible. UID:e.2437.11553 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20240328T085715Z URL:https://www.chathaminfo.com/events/details/from-short-waves-to-satellites-with-bill-farris-11553 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR