[NJARC] K6KPH Will be Active for International Marconi Day

[Alex Magoun]

Received and lightly adapted from email:

K6KPH, the amateur station of the MRHS, http://www.radiomarine.org/,
will be active for International Marconi Day (IMD) 2018 to help
celebrate the birthday of the Great Man.

IMD is organized by the Cornish Amateur Radio Club,
http://gx4crc.com/gb4imd/, each year on the weekend closest to
Marconi's birthday of 25 April 1874.  This year the event will be held
on 21 April UTC.

Since K6KPH transmits from the original Marconi site that went into
service in 1914 it is a registered IMD station.  The Cornish Amateur
Radio Club will issue an award to stations that contact 15 officially
registered IMD stations like K6KPH.

> Date & Time - K6KPH will be in operation Saturday 21 April beginning at 0000 UTC (8:00 pm Friday 20 April EDT - 7:59 pm Saturday 21 April EDT).  Operations will continue for several hours until our operators run out of steam.  See below if you would like to be a K6KPH operator for this event!

> Frequencies - K6KPH will guard these frequencies:

3550.0
7050.0
14050.0
18097.5

> Calling Procedure - Since we will have KPH on the air as well (see below), the operators will be very busy and may not be able to call CQ on each amateur channel.  But they will be scanning all the channels.  So the best bet is to use commercial procedure when calling K6KPH:

Continue to call on your chosen frequency until the K6KPH operator
responds with DE.  Then respond with your call sign.

The station can be reached by phone on +1 415-669-9646 if you want to
call in a report or arrange a special listening watch.  The phone will
be answered only when the station is on the air.

> KPH will be transmitting on these frequencies and will of course be listening for calls from ships on 500kc and ITU channel 3 HF.

426
500
4247.0
6477.5
8642.0
12808.5
17016.8
22447.5

VY 73,
MRHS

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