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\"Reginald<\/a>

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 \u2013 July 22, 1932)<\/p><\/div>\n

Now an\u00a0annual Christmas tradition, Brian Justin (WA1ZMS) will put his longwave\u00a0experimental station WG2XFQ on the air to commemorate the\u00a0108th anniversary of Reginald Fessenden\u2019s first audio transmission.<\/p>\n

WG2XFQ\u00a0will broadcast on 486 kHz from Forest, Virginia,\u00a0beginning on December 24 at 0001 UTC. WG2XFQ\u00a0will remain on the air for 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Listener reports may be sent to Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, at his QRZ.com address<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you would like more information about Brian Justin and WG2XFQ, check out our interview with him last year<\/a>. Indeed, I successfully heard\u00a0the 2013 WG2XFG broadcast and posted\u00a0this audio clip on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additionally, SWLing Post<\/em> reader, George Stein has a very personal connection with radio pioneer, Reginald Fessenden:\u00a0click here to read\u00a0his story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now an\u00a0annual Christmas tradition, Brian Justin (WA1ZMS) will put his longwave\u00a0experimental station WG2XFQ on the air to commemorate the\u00a0108th anniversary of Reginald Fessenden\u2019s first audio transmission. WG2XFQ\u00a0will broadcast on 486 kHz from Forest, Virginia,\u00a0beginning on December 24 at 0001 UTC. WG2XFQ\u00a0will remain on the air for 48 hours. Listener reports may be sent to Brian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,56,81,2436,3],"tags":[2438,4123,4094,4091,2437,1281,2441,2439,2440],"class_list":["post-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-longwave","category-news","tag-brian-justin-wa1zms4","tag-longwave","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-history","tag-reginald-fessenden","tag-special-broadcasts","tag-special-event-broadcasts","tag-wa1zms4","tag-wg2xfq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-34v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22998,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/wi2xlq-formerly-wg2xfq-brian-justins-annual-longwave-broadcast-dec-24-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":11811,"position":0},"title":"WI2XLQ (formerly WG2XFQ): Brian Justin\u2019s annual longwave broadcast Dec 24-25","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Now an\u00a0annual Christmas tradition, Brian Justin (WA1ZMS) will put his longwave\u00a0experimental station WI2XLQ on the air to commemorate the\u00a0110th anniversary of Reginald Fessenden\u2019s first audio transmission. 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