IQ1SP/IP1 Palmaria Island

[IK0ZCW]

On 26 May members of ARI La Spezia (IK1WVR, IK1XVA, IU1IEK, IU1QQZ, IZ1JLS, IZ1OSS and IZ5ZCT) will be active as IQ1SP from their own Radio and Telecommunications Museum, and as IQ1SP/IP1 from Palmaria Island (not IOTA). Plans are to be QRV of the HF bands, as well as on VHF and UHF, indicatively from 11 to 19 UTC. QSL via the bureau.
In 1898, following Marconi's successful experiments in the Gulf of La Spezia, the first two-way radio-telegraph station in Italy was installed and commissioned on the island of Palmaria.