[R-390] Listening Target -- Coast Station KSM

[Frederick Bray]

For those who want a good target for their R-390's, I am posting a 
message I received from W6AWO.
(This is a re-post of a message the bounced the first time, so please 
excuse me it it somehow makes it through twice.)

73,

Fred
KE6CD

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KSM will be on the air this coming weekend, October 8 and 9.

KSM, the coast station of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, has 
recently been operating on Saturdays, running a wheel and soliciting 
traffic from ships.  Our best customer so far has been SS Matsonia/KHRC 
on the San Francisco - Honolulu run.  RO Reese Jones has been filing his 
AMVERs and personal messages via KSM.  We have several messages on the 
hook for him.

This weekend SS Jeremiah O'Brien/KXCH will be participating on the 
annual Fleet Week on San Francisco Bay.  We will be listening for calls 
from them on 500kc.  At the time of writing the exact start time for 
transmissions from KSM have not been decided but we hope to be QRV 
around 1000pdt/1700Z

The KSM transmitting frequencies are:

500kc
426kc
6474kc
12993kc

KSM will listen for calls from ships on:

500kc
6276kc
12552kc

Contact is typically made on one of these calling frequencies.  The ship 
operator then advises his working frequency (usually just the last three 
digits) and the shore station acknowledges with "up".  The shore station 
always remains on its assigned transmitting frequency.

KSM reception reports may be sent to:

Ms. DA Stoops
P.O. Box 381
Bolinas CA, 94924-0381
USA

Denice has a particularly nice verification in the form of a historic 
Globe Wireless radiogram (the call KSM was  assigned to a Globe station 
in the distant past) to send to those submitting a written report.

K6KPH will listen for calls from amateur stations on 7050kc.

VY 73,

RD
Chief Operator, KSM/KPH


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Richard Dillman, W6AWO
Maritime Radio Historical Society
http://www.radiomarine.org
Collector of Harleys, Willys and
Radios over 100lbs.
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