[Elecraft] The Night of Nights

[Fred Jensen]

I'm pretty sure it was posted here on the Elecraft list as well as 
CWops, NASOTA, and many club lists. KPH and a number of other museum 
stations and ships gather on maritime MF and HF frequencies on the night 
of 12 July each year at 0001 GMT, one minute after the final broadcast 
~20 years ago.  One of the only nights you can hear activity on the Holy 
Frequency which is eerily silent the rest of the year.  K6KPH comes up 
on 3550 kcs, 7050 kcs, 14050 kcs, and several frequencies in the WARC 
bands and will accept traffic and signal reports.

KPH will accept messages addressed to anyone who has an email address.  
They send it as a PDF on an authentic radiogram form from KPH's heyday.  
You must format it in "commercial style" which is a bit different than 
amateur NTS format.  Check out the Marine Historical Radio Society 
[radiomarine.org] and look at the latest news letter.  It is formatted 
as a commercial message [note: CODH is one of several message classes, 
it means "company deadhead", a non-revenue message within the company.  
Your message would normally be class "P"].  Kind of a neat way to send 
birthday and other greetings.

KPH/K6KPH is staffed on most Saturday afternoons from about 1800 to 
2200-2300 GMT.  They begin with PX [press], and then start their wheel 
and look for ships.  K6KPH usually comes up when the PX finishes.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 7/13/2019 6:36 AM, Bill wrote:
> It sure would have been nice to have heard about this before it became 
> OLD NEWS. If there was an announcement made here, I never saw it.
>
> Not everyone is plugged into to every nook and cranny of the radio 
> world. A small timely announcement of this event would have been 
> appreciated - by me and probably by others also.
>
> I interviewed at WCC in the 70s and was offered a job. I declined - 
> fortunately. I have to say the entire operation was a step back in 
> time - even then. It was like being in the 40s as soon as you entered 
> the door.
>
> Sorry to have missed this event.
>
> Bill W2BLC