[KCDXC] International Marconi Day Saturday 30 April.

[W0WOI at aol.com]

K6KPH,  the amateur station of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, will 
be on  the air for this year's International Marconi Day on Saturday 30 
April.

K6KPH will use  the transmitters of ex-Marconi, ex-RCA coast station KPH at 
the 1913  Marconi site in Bolinas, California. Operators will be at the 
1929 ex-RCA  receive site at Point Reyes, California.

Several  volunteer operators, will be manning the K6KPH operating 
positions. Among  these will be ace operator Rick Wahl, ex-NMC, ex-KPH.

Hours of  operation:

1700 - 2359GMT

Frequencies:

3550.0
7050.0
14050.0
21050.0

Transmitters will be Henry commercial HF5000D  units except for 7050.0 
which will be using a 1950s vintage RCA  transmitter. TPO for all transmitters 
will be 1.5kW.

Visitors are  welcome. The receive site is located at 17400 Sir Francis 
Drake Blvd.,  Inverness, California (the station is actually well past 
Inverness but  that's the town name that works with most on-line mapping programs).

Coast station  KSM will also be on the air with the usual press and weather 
service on  all Morse and RTTY frequencies.

For details on IMD see:

_http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/_ (http://www.gb4imd.org.uk/) 

For details on  K6KPH and KSM see:

_http://www.radiomarine.org_ (http://www.radiomarine.org/)