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

[Robert Schwer]

That is an interesting Museum station. I’ve worked K6KPH, operator Wally, four times in the past year.

Don’t forget 13 Colonies is coming up in July. too. I’ve managed a Clean Sweep twice during that event. Once from NC and once from here in The Villages. They have nice QSL cards and Certificates if you are into that.

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From: Anthony Hackenberg
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 12:07 AM
To: TVARC MailList at QSL.net
Subject: [TVARC] MRHS: "Night of Nights" July 12, 2017

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
 


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 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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