European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              I by James Gunter is Munich Bureau chief an old roman Road so bumpy that autos Are limited to 10 Miles an hour leads to an american Tippo scatter station near Pisa Italy which stands on the site where Guglielmo Marconi carried out wireless experiments from 1910 to 1w. Marconi sent the first radio message Between Italy and America and Between Italy and North Africa from the Marsh pasture which is now a grazing land for Angora goats. Sgt. Maj. Emmett Sheridan station chief of present Day col Tana communications Complex said the Marconi Long wave installation was used by the italian Navy and Italo radio. A crumbling roofless building that the famed inventor and physicist used for his transmitters is still there. It is sur rounded by rows of Large Concrete bases which once supported his radio  said some of the towers were More than 750 feet High. During the summer we have 30 or More visitors a month who want to see the site he said. . Army and air Force communicators Man the Busy microwave communications Center today. An automatic switching station is under construction. Marconi who was born near Bologna in 1874, believed that electrical signals could lie directed and sent with out wires. He built a transmission apparatus in his Home and in 1895 hews Able to Send signals More than a mile. Within two years he had stretched the distance to 18 Miles using equip ment aboard a ship to transmit to the Shore. In 1899, Marconi went to the unite states to work. A year later he reported the presidential election by  first transatlantic messages were sent under his supervision from  a Newfoundland to Cornwall England. The Anglo american Cable co.,when it found out Marconi s method really worked compelled him to with draw on the basis that the firm already held a franchise for messages betwee Canada and England. Marconi moved to the United stat Sand on dec. 21, 1902, he sent a message from president Theodore Roosevelt toking Edward Over a distance of 3,000  Marconi went to col Tana near Pisa to work he had already received Nobel prize and had been decorated in Britain Russia Spain and Italy Fortis accomplishments. It was there that he made Many improvements and that he developed an apparatus by which messages could be sent and receive Dat the same time without conflict. Page 12 the stars and stripes where Marconi carried out experiments it site of col Tana commo Complex manned by . Airmen and soldiers who keep messages  at right during 1915 visit to . Set up Pioneer experiments a leu i f it Early Marconi transatlantic transmitting station was Imp a of to massive antennas at col Tana today Are smaller than earlier radio communications station. The stars and stripes Page 13