[Hallicrafters] FW: [ndblist] KPH On The Air - Night of Nights IV

[Phil Atchley]

Hi.  
Here is a chance for you to listen to some "Vintage style" broadcasts on
your vintage Hallicrafters receivers.  While this came over the NDB
(longwave beacon) reflector they will also be using some higher frequencies.


73 de Phil, KO6BB
DX begins at the noise floor!
k06bb at elite.net
Merced, California
37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh

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 NDB List Information Page:
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Hi All,

Here's a chance to hear the loudest MF station in California.  You may
want to brush up on your 20WPM code copying speed beforehand :O)

GL de Mike KB6WFC

--- Richard Dillman <ddillman at igc.org wrote:
 To: KPH-OTA at mindspring.com,
               MF_Monitors at yahoogroups.com
 From: "Richard Dillman" <ddillman at igc.org
 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:46:58 -0700
 Subject: [MF Monitors] KPH On The Air - Night of Nights IV
 
           HISTORIC MORSE CODE RADIO STATION 
                        WILL RETURN TO THE AIR
 
        Stations KPH and KFS To Be Heard Once Again 
 
 In the fourth annual event that has become known as the "Night of 
 Nights" historic Morse code radio station KPH will return to the air 
 in commemoration of the last commercial Morse message sent in the 
 United States.  
 
 KPH, the ex-RCA coast station located north of San Francisco,  will 
 return to the air for commemorative broadcasts on 12 July at 1701 PDT
 
 (13 July at 0001 GMT), 4 years and one minute after the last 
 commercial Morse transmission in the US. These on-the-air events are 
 intended to honor the men and women who followed the radiotelegraph 
 trade on ships and at coast stations around the world.  Transmissions
 
  are expected to continue until at least midnight PDT (0700GMT).    
 
 For this fourth annual Night of Nights one frequency for equally 
 historic coast station KFS will also be activated.   
 
 Veteran Morse operators, including many former KPH and KFS staff 
 members, will be on duty at the receiving station at Point Reyes, CA 
 listening for calls from ships and sending messages just as they did 
 for so many years before Morse code operations were shut down.   
 
 The transmitters are located 18 miles south of Point Reyes in 
 Bolinas, CA at the transmitting station established in 1913 by the 
 American Marconi Co.  The original KPH transmitters, receivers and 
 antennas will be used to activate frequencies in all the commercial 
 maritime HF bands and on MF as well.     
 
 KPH will transmit on 4247.0, 6477.5, 8642.0, 12808.5, 17016.5 and 
 22477.5kc on HF and on 500 and 426kc on MF.  KFS will transmit on 
 17026.0kc.  These frequencies have been made available through the 
 generous cooperation of Globe Wireless, the current owner of the KPH 
 and KFS licenses.     
 
 Many of the transmitters will be 50s vintage RCA sets.  Power output 
 will be 4 to 5kW.  The transmitting antennas include a Marconi T for 
 MF, double extended Zepps for 4, 6 and 8Mc and H over 2s for 12, 16 
 and 22Mc.     
 
 Operators will listen for calls from ships on 4184.0, 6276.0, 8368.0,
 
  12552.0, 16736.0 and 22280.5kc on HF and 500kc on MF.       
 
 KPH and KFS will send traffic lists, weather and press broadcasts and
 
 commemorative messages, many of which will be sent by hand.  At other
 
 times the KPH and KFS "wheel" will be sent to mark the transmitting 
 frequencies.    
 
 Reception reports may be sent to:
 
 Ms. DA Stoops
 P.O. Box 381
 Bolinas CA  94924-0381
 USA  
 
 Members of the public are invited to visit the receiving station for 
 this event.  The station will be open to visitors beginning at 
 1500PDT (3:00pm).  The station is located at 17400 Sir Francis  Drake
 
 Boulevard and is on the route to the Point Reyes lighthouse.  Watch 
 for a cypress lined driveway on the right about a mile past the entry
 
 to Coast Guard station NMC.    
 
 KPH is operated by the Maritime Radio Historical Society in 
 cooperation with the Point Reyes National Seashore, part of the 
 National Park Service.    
 
 Further information may be found on the Maritime Radio Historical 
 Society Web site at http://www.radiomarine.org or by contacting 
 Richard Dillman at +1 415-990-7090 (email: ddillman at igc.org) or Tom 
 Horsfall at +1 510-237-9535 (email: wa6ope at hotmail.com).  
 
 VY 73,
 
 RD
 
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 Richard Dillman, W6AWO
 Member of the Maritime Radio Historical Society
 <http://www.radiomarine.org
 Collector of Heavy Metal:
 Harleys, Willys and Radios over 100lbs.
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