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With February\u2019s Geek\u2019s Guide to Porthcurno<\/a>, I have now written a trilogy of pieces for The Register on globally important communications sites in the west of Cornwall. The first was on Goonhilly<\/a>, the satellite earth station which received the first transatlantic TV pictures in 1962, which is finding a new lease of life as a commercial deep-space communications station<\/a>. Sadly, it remains closed to most visitors, as Goonhilly\u2019s boss Ian Jones focuses on building a sustainable business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"West<\/a>The second piece went back to the turn of the 20th century, covering Guglielmo Marconi\u2019s experiments with wireless on the Lizard<\/a>, focusing on two locations at the southern tip and the western side on the peninsula, both open to the public.<\/p>\n

For the most recent one, I went further west and further back in time to Porthcurno, whose telegraph cable station opened in 1870 and operated for a century, and is now an excellent museum. The beach is still in use for telecommunications, in the shape of the terabit fibre-optic cables that run underneath it.<\/p>\n

Unesco lists the mining landscape of Cornwall and West Devon<\/a> as one of the UK\u2019s world heritage sites. Shouldn\u2019t Cornwall\u2019s far west, where brilliant engineers have helped to pioneer all three of the world\u2019s most important communications technologies, be listed too?<\/p>\n

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