[KCDXC] FW: [Cq-l] Maritime Morse Stations Return to Air July 12

[Reicher, James]

FYI, y'all

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO


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[mailto:cq-l-bounces at ns2.sunserver.com] On Behalf Of Rich Moseson, W2VU
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Subject: [Cq-l] Maritime Morse Stations Return to Air July 12

>From the CQ Newsroom...

The following is from the Maritime Radio Historical Society via W9IND,
and may
be of interest to many list subscribers.

73,
The editors

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HISTORIC MORSE CODE RADIO STATION KPH RETURNS TO THE AIR FOR "NIGHT OF
NIGHTS VII"

Former RCA Station KPH Celebrates Its 101st Anniversary

In the seventh annual event that has become known as the "Night of
Nights",
historic Morse code radio station KPH and others will return to the air
in
commemoration of the last commercial Morse message sent in the United
States.

Frequencies and reception report information for all stations are on the
Maritime Radio Historical Society website. See address below.

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), 7 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 and made it one of honor and skill.

Transmissions are expected to continue until at least midnight PDT
(0700GMT).

Veteran Morse operators, including former KPH 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
operations
were shut down.

KPH will send traffic lists, weather and press broadcasts as well as
special
commemorative messages, many of which will be sent by hand. At other
times the
KPH and KSM "wheel" will be sent to mark the transmitting frequencies.

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/non7.html>.

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