[SMCARA] MRHS Bulletin - K6KPH On The Air for Marconi Day

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*K6KPH Will be Active for International Marconi Day*

	

K6KPH Active For International Marconi Day

MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
16 April 2018

BULLETIN

*K6KPH Will be Active for International Marconi Day*

K6KPH, the amateur station of the MRHS, 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 
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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 
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The Cornish Amateur Radio Club will issue an award 
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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 (5:00 pm Friday 20 April PDT).  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.

*> Be a K6KPH Operator* - If you would like to be a K6KPH operator for 
IMD we would welcome your help.  Bring your key and 'phones or use ours 
(but be advised that some modern electronic keys may not work with the 
K6KPH keying system so bugs and straight keys are encouraged). Show up 
early so we can familiarize you with the K6KPH equipment and procedures. 
You'll be using fixed frequency 1.5kW commercial transmitters 20 miles 
from the receive/control site so operations are a little different from 
usual amateur practice!  For more information please send an email to 
info at radiomarine.org

*> KPH Will Be 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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