First Ship-To-Ship Radio Contact!

Capt. John

The Maritime Radio Club ‘Marine Funker Club Austria (MFCA)’ commemorates the first ship-to-ship radio contact made between two ships.

What happened?

On 21 December 1898, the maiden ship-to-ship radio contact was established between SMS Budapest and SMS Lussin with the callsign OE120MF between the 21st and 23rd December.

First ship-to-ship contact

The Monarch class coastal defense ship ‘SMS Budapest’ was built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. The defense ship conducted the first wireless...

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