[CW] KFS transmissions
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Sun Jan 9 16:35:35 EST 2022
KFS is usually listed as being in Palo Alto. I remember seeing
a complex of antennas there when i worked for -hp- but am not
sure if it was KFS.
I think Muscle Rock was KTK, a station originally belonging
to the Robert Dollar Co and then Globe Wireless. KTK merged with
KFS/ITT sometime in the 1960s.
Its also possible that ITT had something at Dixon Ca. This
was a location with stations belonging to the USN, AT&T, Voice of
America, and others.
KFS shows up in early call books as belonging to Federal
Telegraph.
On 1/9/2022 1:44 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> The ITU List of Coast Stations and the Admiralty List of Radio
> Stations (ALRS) both required the coast stations to be listed by
> their transmitter locations because if a ship ever used radio
> direction finding on them there would be major problems. Thus
> Ocean Gate Radio, NJ for WOO while the receiver site was in
> Manehawkin, NJ. Bolinas RCA Radio KPH while their receiver site
> was Inverness, KFS - I forget what their transmitter location was
> but their receive location was Half Moon Bay, CA.
>
> Tuckerton, NJ radio, WSC became West Creek, NJ radio when the
> transmitter was located at the receive site in West Creek on
> Murphy Drive: https://goo.gl/maps/ZBSWoxt9HBmHbhMo9
> <https://goo.gl/maps/ZBSWoxt9HBmHbhMo9> There's a radio station
> there still but not a CW station!
>
> 73
> DR
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 1:52 AM Richard Knoppow
> <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>
> I suspect this is the station. Algoa is near Galveston.
> Sometimes the call books don't give exact locations plus coastal
> stations usually had more than one site, one for transmitting
> and
> one for receiving and sometimes separate locations for HF and
> MF.
> I heard it on HF, could be heard pretty much 24 hours a day, it
> was very strong and steady. I don't remember which band I mostly
> heard it on.
> I know I will never be as good as the good commercial or
> coast guard operators but its a goal to pursue.
>
> On 1/8/2022 6:51 PM, Walter - K5EST wrote:
> > Never saw the ITT station in Galveston, but I did get to
> see the
> > station at ITT McKay, Algoa, TX (south of Houston on Hwy
> 6). I
> > was fresh out of the Brown Water Navy on the rivers of
> Vietnam,
> > APL 55/YRBM 18 was home water base.
> >
> > David, is sure correct, Joe - N0MU is a first class CW
> operator.
> > Only wish I could be that good :-)
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Walter Dufrain - K5EST - QRPcw
> > https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est>>
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022, 19:47 Richard Knoppow
> > <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > KLC probably. KLC always came booming in to Los
> Angeles,
> > much
> > stronger than the RCA station at Port Arthur WPA. The old
> > records show that prior to WW-2 MacKay (ITT) had
> another call,
> > WGV in Galveston. I don't know the story behind this
> other than
> > coast stations were taken over by the government
> during the war
> > and some of the old calls were discontinued later.
> Possible
> > David
> > Ring knows.
> > If you got to visit the station I envy you.
> >
> > On 1/8/2022 5:36 PM, Walter - K5EST wrote:
> > > I miss the CW ship/shore stations. Knew several ITT CW
> > operators
> > > when I lived at Galveston, TX.
> > >
> > > Once had the opportunity to be the logger for N0MU at
> > field day
> > > in Missouri. Eight hours at the FD circuit was
> nothing but
> > pure
> > > pleasure.
> > >
> > > https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU> <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU>>
> > <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU> <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/N0MU>>>
> > >
> > > 73,
> > > Walter Dufrain - K5EST - QRPcw
> > > https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est>
> > <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est>> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est>
> > <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est
> <https://www.qrz.com/db/k5est>>>
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022, 16:08 Darrel Emerson
> > <demerson2718 at gmail.com
> <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com>
> <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com>>
> > > <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com
> <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com>
> > <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com
> <mailto:demerson2718 at gmail.com>>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > KFS -B is booming into Tucson, AZ this
> afternoon, on
> > 12695.5
> > > kHz. About
> > > S9+30 dB all the time. Inviting replies on HF
> ch 3,
> > which I
> > > think would
> > > be 12552.0 kHz. Sadly, no replies to KFS so far.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Darrel, aa7fv.
> > >
> >
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