Koowee gets the message

Mayor Graeme Legge, president of the Gippsland Gate Radio and Electronics Club Chris Chapman and president of the Wireless Institute of Australia, Michael Owen. 48740 Mayor Graeme Legge, president of the Gippsland Gate Radio and Electronics Club Chris Chapman and president of the Wireless Institute of Australia, Michael Owen. 48740

A PLAQUE commemorating the first direct press message sent from the UK to Australia in 1921, was unveiled at the Kooweerup Historical Society on Friday.
Cardinia Shire Mayor Graeme Legge unveiled the plaque, which acknowledges Kooweerup as an historic radio site.
Representatives from the Gippsland Gate Radio and Electronics Club (GGREC) were also in attendance, including the president Chris Chapman. The president of the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA), Michael Owen also witnessed the unveiling.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the WIA, and the very start of organised amateur radio in Australia during 1910, GGREC last week staged a re-enactment of the first direct press message.
The re-enacted message was transmitted from the original Marconi MUU station buildings in Caernarfon, Wales to the original location of the experimental station site in Kooweerup.