[GreenKeys] The Last Active Morse Code Station in the US - KPH Radio Station - YouTube

[Richard Knoppow]

    RCA Communications had its western headquarters at Bolinas. 
They had something like forty circuits to the Pacific rim 
countries. KPH was a comparatively minor operation. This was 
mostly via RCA teleprinter, using RCA developed Moore Code, a 
system with automatic error correction. It was the western 
equivalent of the RCA operation on Long Island at Rocky Point and 
Riverhead which served Europe and South America. KPH, BTW, stands 
for Palace Hotel, the original Marconi location. IT&T/MacKay 
radio also had a large installation near San Francisco, some at 
Palo Alto some at Dixon. So did what became Globe Wireless, which 
descended from Dollar Radio and Federal Telegraph. The site at 
Dixon was used by the Navy, RCA, MacKay, Voice of America, AT&T, 
maybe others.
    I used to hear both RCA and AT&T setting up international 
phone calls. AT&T used a "shuffler" for privacy, you could tell 
from the rhythm that it was speech but nothing else. RCA, 
however, just used inverted sideband, easy to decipher with a 
decent receiver. You could hear both sides. Used to hear RCA in 
New York taking to Rio a lot.


On 5/3/2020 11:56 AM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> Yes, it  was interesting to see a young lady so passionate 
> about radio & CW!
>
> One of the M28s at the Pt. Reyes Receive station is an order 
> wire to a M15 at the Bolinas transmitter site.
>
> Although KPH just used CW to communicate with ships at sea, 
> there was RTTY communications there, also.  RCA and/or MCI had 
> point-to-point RTTY service from there at one time.
>
> KPH/KFS was transmitting on RTTY during their normal operating 
> times on Saturdays. But it is temporarily off the air due to 
> antenna problems. (They have a huge antenna farm with lots of 
> old antennas needing repair, which is expensive!)
>
> Have fun,
>
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
>
>

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