[R-390] 500KHz Celebrations this weekend from KPH

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

Here is a good reason to warm up your R-390s/R-390As/R-389s this weekend:
Several organizations around the world will be marking centenary of the 
Berlin 
International Wireless Telegraphy Convention, at which 500kc (600m) was born 
as 
the international distress and calling frequency.

As part of this event the Maritime Radio Historical Society had decided to 
activate KPH on 500kc and its working frequency, 426kc.  KPH began operation 
in 
1905, a year before Berlin Convention.

Transmissions from KPH will begin at 0001 GMT Saturday, 4 November (1601PST 
Friday, 3 November).  KPH will send special messages and marine information 
using 
500kc as frequently as possible, keeping in mind that other stations share 
this 
frequency.  Longer bulletins will be sent on 426kc after an announcement on 
500kc. 
500kc will be monitored at all times for calls from ships and the Silent 
Period 
will of course be scrupulously observed.

Operators will listen for the signals of stations operating in the US under 
experimental license WD2XSH in the 505kc - 510kc band even though two-way 
contact 
between these stations and KPH will not be possible.
73 Todd WD4NGG