[Elecraft] The Good Kind of IMD for CW buffs
Ron D'Eau Claire
ron at cobi.biz
Tue Apr 19 17:56:05 EDT 2011
For CW enthusiasts interested in an unusual contact, K6KPH, the amateur
station of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, will be on the air for
this year's International Marconi Day on Saturday 30 April.
K6KPH will use the transmitters of ex-Marconi, ex-RCA coast station KPH at
the 1913 Marconi site in Bolinas, California. Operators will be at the 1929
ex-RCA receive site at Point Reyes, California.
Several volunteer operators, will be manning the K6KPH operating positions.
Among these will be ace operator Rick Wahl, ex-NMC, ex-KPH.
Hours of operation:
1700 - 2359GMT
Frequencies:
3550.0
7050.0
14050.0
21050.0
Transmitters will be Henry commercial HF5000D units except for 7050.0 which
will be using a 1950s vintage RCA transmitter. All transmitters will be
throttled back to 1.5kW.
Visitors are welcome. The receive site is located at 17400 Sir Francis Drake
Blvd., Inverness, California (the station is actually well past Inverness
but that's the town name that works with most on-line mapping programs).
Coast station KSM will also be on the air with the usual press and weather
service on all Morse and RTTY frequencies.
For details on IMD see:
http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/
For details on K6KPH and KSM including the Morse press/weather and RTTY
frequencies see:
http://www.radiomarine.org
Ron AC7AC
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