On a sunny day with a few showers, on July 2nd 2025, SAQ celebrated its 100 Year anniversary. There was a lot of visitors from Sweden and many other countries, together with the Alexander team and employees at the radio station, at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station.
Just this day, one hundred years ago, on July 2nd, 1925, the Grimeton radio station was officially inaugurated. Radio traffic had already begun on December 1st of the previous year, but now it was time for the official ceremony. Sweden’s King Gustav V, the inventor of the fantastic 200 kW generator and its massive multiple antenna, Ernst F.W. Alexanderson, and the head of the Radio Corporation of America, David Sarnoff, were together with several other prominent guests. The large and shiny Alexanderson generator was put into use and a message to the American President Calvin Coolidge was sent to the receiving station in Riverhead, Long Island, New York, USA. The American President responded and considered the new radio installations to be crucial for relations between Sweden and the USA. This began an era of communication from Grimeton’s radio station to the United States and other parts of the world for many decades.
Despite incredible technological developments at the station, the old Alexanderson alternator was left behind and was kept in working order by the station’s employees. Today it is the only remaining electromechanical transmitter in the world, and it is still working.
Now we were standing here, a hundred years after the inauguration, it was with great respect for the history and for the place and were very grateful to be part of all this.
https://alexander.n.se/en/saq-celebrated-100-years/
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100-Year Anniversary Telegram 11:00 CEST (09:00 UTC)
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THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO STATION/SAQ IN A TRANSMISSION USING THE ALEXANDERSON 200 KW ALTERNATOR FROM 1924 ON 17.2 KHZ. =
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON, GRIMETON’S VOICE STILL ECHOES – CLEAR AND FULL OF HOPE.
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LIVING MONUMENT TO TRANSATLANTIC RADIO TRANSMISSIONS, IT EMBODIES
UNESCO’S COMMITMENT TO THE FREE FLOW OF IDEAS ACROSS CONTINENTS, TIME
AND GENERATIONS. HAPPY 100TH ANNIVERSARY GRIMETON UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
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SIGNED: UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL, AUDREY AZOULEY, WORLD HERITAGE GRIMETON RADIO STATION AND THE ALEXANDER GRIMETON FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION. =
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