[TVARC] MRHS: "Night of Nights" July 12, 2017

[Anthony Hackenberg]

Hi Members of TVARC"s MailList (hosted by QSL.net via mailman.qth.net),

If you are interested in CW and maritime history, then check out the
Maritime Radio Historical Society's (MRHS) "Night of Nights", on July 12,
2017.  This event is an annual commemoration of the closing of commercial
Morse operation in the USA.  During this event, historic maritime CW
stations such as KPH & WLO, and Coast Guard stations such as NMC, return
from the "dead" for a few hours.  Several restored "Coastal Stations" will
be on-the-air that night on commercial (not ham) frequencies.  They will be
sending Morse Code messages.  So, you may want to play Shortwave Listener
(SWL) and copy their broadcasts.

The MRHS' amateur radio station (K6KPH) will also be on-the-air monitoring
ham CW frequencies.  Apparently, you can try to contact it via CW.

Night of Nights begins on July 12, 2017, at 5:01 p.m. PDT (July 13 @ 0001
GMT).

For more details, see these websites:

https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/events_nightofnights.htm
http://radiomarine.org
http://www.radiomarine.org/gallery/show?keyword=K6KPH&panel=pab1_3


Here's a snippet from that first reference:

NIGHT OF NIGHTS XVIII
July 12, 2017

[image: RCA Radio operator at Historic Coast Station KPH]

July 12th every year
from 3 pm to midnight
at the Historic RCA Coast Station KPH

In the annual "Night of Nights", historic Morse code radio station KPH
returns to the air in commemoration of the closing of commercial Morse
operation in the USA.

Frequency and reception report information for all stations appear at
the Maritime
Radio Historical Society <http://www.radiomarine.org/> website.

KPH, the ex-RCA coast station located north of San Francisco, returns to
the air for commemorative broadcasts every year on July 12 at 5:01 pm PDT
(13 July at 0001 GMT). On July 12, 1999, the last commercial Morse
transmission in the U.S. was thought to have been broadcast at 5 pm PDT (13
July at 0000 GMT). Transmissions are expected to continue until at least
midnight PDT (0700 GMT).
73,
Tony Hackenberg/N8SK
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