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>At the request of Radio Amateurs of Canada, Industry Canada has
>authorized all Canadian radio amateurs to use special event prefixes
>for the months of December 2006 and January 2007, to mark the 100th
>anniversary of the first AM voice broadcast by Reginald Fessenden on
>December 24, 1906.
>
>Reginald Fessenden, who was born in East Bolton, Quebec, on October
>6, 1866, and lived until July 22, 1932, was the holder of more than
>500 patents on a wide variety of subjects, and the inventor of radio
>as we know it today. He is particularly known for: the first voice
>transmission by radio in 1900, the first transatlantic two-way radio
>communications in January 1906, and the first radio broadcasts of
>entertainment and music in December 1906.
>
>On Christmas Eve, 1906, from a transmitting station in Brant
>Rock, Massachussetts, he sent a short program which included the
>song O Holy Night played on the violin and a reading from the Bible.
>A second short program was broadcast on December 31, 1906.
>
>Canadian radio amateurs are authorized to use the following special
>event prefixes during the period 1 December 2006 to 31 January 2007
>inclusive: CF for VA stations CG for VE stations CH for VO stations
>CI for VY stations
>
>For more information on Reginald Fessenden, see the biography at
><http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/fessenden-bio.html>.
>
>BTW, information on special prefixes assigned by IC can be found at
><http://www.callsign.ca> or <http://www.indicatif.ca>.
>
>73,
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