[Elecraft] VLF/LF Converters

[Bruce McLaughlin]

I have worked the ham station call for the past two years during the "Night
of Nights" and also monitored KPH on all marine frequencies except the 600
meter frequencies.  I simply don't have an antenna for anything that low.
After the second year I sent a QSL and, as you mentioned, I received a nice
QSL on an RCA message form from Ms. Stoops.  The volunteers there are doing
a wonderful job in preserving an important part of radio history by
restoring the old equipment and keeping the station available for tours,
etc.  I also understand they secured a new coastal station license for KSM
which uses the same equipment as KPH and can accept commercial traffic when
it is in operation.

Monitoring KPH, KFS and WCC helped me with learning Morse back in the days
when I was thinking of getting a ham license.  I understand WCC was
dismantled except for the receive building which they are trying to preserve
as a museum but the transmitter location was dismantled and the receive
location has no equipment.  Fortunately, KPH has not suffered that fate.  I
wish I lived close enough to the station to visit during the next Night of
Nights.

Bruce - W8FU

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:52 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] VLF/LF Converters

Wow, Mike! 

Have you told them? They'd like to know and you'll get a nice 'QSL' from the
Grand Dame of KPH, Denise Stoops (the first female operator there). She
sends "QSLs" out on original RCA radiogram forms as long as the supply left
over from full time station ops lasts in response to an SASE. 

They put in a nice signal here, but I'm only 600 miles away. On the other
hand, I'm close enough that I've managed to be at the station for one of
their "night of nights" activities. That's a special bit of nostalgia for me
since I used to chat with them on the air from ships visiting San Francisco
Bay while testing the shipboard CW gear. 

For those here on the reflector without MF capability, KPH also transmits CW
and RTTY on various HF frequencies and is active as K6KPH on several Ham
bands, usually on 7050, 14050 and 21050 kHz and occasionally on 3550 kHz. 

There's more info about the facilities, stations in operation and
frequencies used on:

http://www.radiomarine.org 

Ron AC7AC


-----Original Message-----

Interesting Ron.....and,as a matter of interest, on the 'Night of 
Nights', I've copied KPH, on 426kHz, here in the far north of NZ's North 
Island, for several years now.
73 de Mike, zl1mh.


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