HISTORY AND PICS OF SAN BENEDETTO RADIO IQP

 

	IQP - SAMBENEDETTORADIO - 1950
	Sambenedettoradio was born in 1945 for initiative of local shipowners, above all of Sambenedettese merchant marine, thriving and full expansion in those years. It was inaugurated in the summer of 1949. It was the first coastal radio station to be opened in Italy in the postwar period and Mr. Serafino Romani was the first operator. The radio station was in the north-west of the old football field “F.lli Ballarin”, in Morosini street, one hundred meters from the sea, in a small brick cottage with only one room for all radio equipments........ 1950 - THE COAST STATION SAMBENEDETTORADIO  IQP AND Mr. ELISEO BIANCO EX R/O OPERATOR OF THE ITALIAN ROYAL NAVY     1950 - THE COAST STATION SAMBENEDETTORADIO  IQP     THE SMALL BRICK COTTAGE  WHERE  IQP  SAMBENEDETTORADIO BORN IN 1945     IQP - SAN BENEDETTO RADIO – 1949  AND THE RADIO OPERATORS FROM LEFT :  NEREO GROPAIZ – GIUSEPPE MOSCA  I6TIH – SERAFINO ROMANI The radio station was controlled by an ex R/T operator of the Italian Royal Navy Mr. Eliseo Bianco, a man of great technical ability, pioneer in the maritime communications sector on behalf of the S.I.R.M. (Society Italian Maritime Radio). The  station was operated 24 hours at day, it regulary transmitted meteo bulletins for supporting a safety navigation in the Adriatic Sea, a guarantee for all sailors in those years. The R/T Eliseo Bianco was helped from an operational staff composed of Mr. Giuseppe Mosca (today I6TIH), Mr. Serafino Romani and Mr. Nereo Gropaiz....... 1949 - THE COAST STATION SAMBENEDETTORADIO  IQP OPERATED BY  GIUSEPPE MOSCA TODAY I6TIH     1949  - THE TECHNICIAN  RADIO GIUSEPPE MOSCA I6TIH ON BOARD OF A SHIP CHECK THE RADIO     Sambenedettoradio was a support point for all shipowners, especially for those involved with oceanic fish. This radio station frequently transmitted to unthinkable distances reaching ships in the Alantic Ocean during night time using Amplitude Modulation…. really extraordinary. 1958 - THE COAST STATION SAMBENEDETTORADIO  IQP FROM LEFT  THE TECHNICIAN  RADIO GIUSEPPE MOSCA I6TIH AND  IMPERIO BOELLIS  WITH A NEW RADIO RX HALLICRAFTER MONTESECCO  AREA AND THE AERIALS IQP - SAN BENEDETTO RADIO In 1965 the Italian Government stopped S.I.R.M. (Society Italian Maritime Radio) financing and a lot coastal stations were closed. Only few radio stations remained operational, the most important between the main italian fishing harbours is  San Benedetto del Tronto better known as SAMBENEDETTORADIO (IQP) IQP - SAMBENEDETTO  P.T.  RADIO - 1968   IQP - SAMBENEDETTO   P.T.  RADIO - 1968 THE RADIO OPERATOR Mr. PIETRO PAPETTI it was famous for its first Italian fishing-boats and for its presence in the Atlantic Ocean, so Sambenedettoradio remained opened and passed under the control of the Italian Post and Telecommunications Office (Ministero delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni), the small and romantic coastal radio station, built on the beach near the harbour, was transferred into a new building of the PP.TT. (Ministero delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni) located in the center of the city. THE NEW BUILDING  WHERE  SAMBENEDETTORADIO - IQP   WAS TRANSFERRED IN 1962 TO THE SECOND FLOOR Here the receiving and transmitting  equipments were systemaized. I remember the enormous pylon on the stable summit and the long aerials on each quadrant. After some years the transmitter was set in Grottammare two km for from San Benedetto del Tronto, in the Montesecco area (on the top of a hill) about 150 mt. slm. IQP. Sambenedettoradio has been for half of a century a reference point in the Adriatic sea for the whole local merchant marine and for all the ships that transited in this area till the advent of cellular phone which upset everything and everybody. IQP - THE AERIALS   Today IQP – Sambenedettoradio- is still "ON THE AIR" and it is remoted controlled by IAR- Rome Radio. SOURCE: PAGINA DEL RADIOAMATORE DOMENICO CASELLI