Efforts are reportedly underway to preserve some of the defining infrastructure of modern radio technology.
The ARRL reports that the National Trust for Canada has launched a “Next Great Save” project to restore some of the original radio towers designed and developed by Guglielmo Marconi, who pioneered the creation of radio wave-based telegraphy in the late 1800s. Built in 1904, the Battle Harbour Marconi Towers are reportedly experiencing structural failure after more than a century of exposure to storms and extreme climate conditions on the Labrador Coast of Canada, and are in dire need of restoration.
The Battle Harbour Marconi Towers were reportedly used to facilitate the transmission of news and announcements from Admiral Robert Peary during his 1909 North Pole expedition. Today, the Marconi Towers are thought to be the last of their kind still standing in North America.
The text of the ARRL news items on the efforts to save the Marconi Towers is available at https://www.arrl.org/news/effort-to-save-marconi-towers-in-canada-public-invited-to-vote-on-project.
The National Trust’s “Next Great Save” website on the Marconi Towers project is available at https://nextgreatsave.nationaltrustcanada.ca/2025/entry/85.
