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

[Richard Dillman]

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:42 PM Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
wrote:

KPH would receive telegrams for ships from Western Union on the Model 2B
> (M14) and paste them up on message blanks, just like regular telegrams.
> But then the message would go to a Morse operator to forward the message
> to the specific ship. Messages from ships could be typed on the 2B to be
> sent to WU for delivery.
>
> There were machines to do automatic Morse to 5-bit TTY conversion and
> the reverse. They just got one at KPH a few years ago. Don't remember
> which direction it went in, or whether they were ever used.  The Navy
> had similar machines.
>
> Duncan
> K2OEQ


Thanks again Duncan.  The Model 2B can be seen in photos of the post war
KPH operating room when the station moved from the original Marconi receive
site in Marshall, CA to the current HF point to point receive site at Point
Reyes.  The Western Union line if mentioned often in station manager Frank
Geisel's monthly reports from 1946 and 1947 because it was so often out of
service.  With the help of several folks, some of whom are members of this
list, we were eventually able to acquire and restore a Model 2B to
operation.  It's on display in the current KPH operating room along with a
tape moistener and a finger cutter (there's probably and official name for
this device).  When I printed the first tapes with the 2B and glued them to
a message blank the I could see how well designed the system was - even
though I had never done it before the operation was intuitive.

RD

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Richard Dillman, Chief Operator
Maritime Radio Historical Society
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