Mayor Rehette Stoltz joined Gisborne Amateur Radio Club members (from left) Aidan Kirk (president), Scott Casley, Rusty Barker, Laura Jackson and Steve Main (vice-president), and members of the Radio Club of Argentina (on the screen). They commemorated a historic event of a century ago when radio hams from Gisborne and Buenos Aires made contact with each other across the Pacific — 10,000 kilometres apart. Photo / Paul Rickard
Argentine radio operators have asked Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz to name a street after Gisborne radio ham Ivan O’Meara to honour his historic achievement of 100 years ago.
It was May 22, 1924, when O’Meara made the first radio contact across the Pacific Ocean to fellow “ham” Carlos Braggio, 10,000km away in Buenos Aires.
The feat was believed to be impossible at the t...
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