[Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast

[Christmas Peter]

This is a page from KPH describing the end of morse and the high seas.

http://jproc.ca/radiostor/kph.html

It is sad for me to read articles like this as I grew up listening to all those stations and it is how I learned the code in the first place, by listening to these guys calling and handling traffic.
Every year in July, KPH gets on and handles some traffic, several museum ships get on and work them. They send the weather and if you have an amateur license you can get on and work k6kph, their Amateur station. WLO also gets on with their qsx messages and weather. At the end of the evening they have a special message to all listening, and they do qsl. It makes me remember the better times when you could copy ships and coastal stations from around the world, when the bands were crowded with traffic, and I was struggling with the code. Then I thought 20 wpm was fast...lol. Now I use paddles, a straight key or my old coffin bug from Lafayette radio. 
Thanks for asking these questions and I hope I haven't said too much as its not spooks but I was lucky to have grown up in such times....when you could feel the heat and see the tubes glow...
Thanks guys, for making me remember!
Doc
W2MFT

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From: Christmas Peter <christmaspeter at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast
To: "Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations" <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 10:52 PM

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Fromm Wikipedia regarding cw operations in commercial service:

By the 1990s few ship stations were equipped for Morse code or had any 
use for it, so coast stations re-allocated their Morse frequencies to 
other uses. Some stations disappeared from the airwaves altogether, as 
did KPH after being acquired by Globe Wireless in 1997.[2] Its Morse code traffic was then diverted to other stations such as KFS in Half Moon Bay, California, another Globe Wireless station. KFS continued to handle Morse code traffic until July 13, 1999 (Universal time; actually July 12 in the Pacific time zone)
 when it made its "last ever" Morse transmission, ceremonially marking 
the supposed end of commercial Morse code usage in America (as distinct 
from amateur Morse code usage, which continues). This anniversary is commemorated on the air every July as the "Night of Nights" by KPH and other coast radio stations, along with radio amateurs who participate on their own frequencies.[4][5]

--- On Mon, 2/11/13, Christmas Peter <christmaspeter at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Christmas Peter <christmaspeter at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast
To: "Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations" <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 10:49 PM

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Yes they do but commerical operations do not
Doc
W2MFT

--- On Mon, 2/11/13, Todd Dokey <justcallmebuddy at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Todd Dokey <justcallmebuddy at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] Morse Code Broadcast
To: "Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations" <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 10:24 PM

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CIS Navy uses CW a lot still.

Lowest freqs I have in my list are:

0,583
2,230.5
2,490
2,525
2,776

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