KPH – Night of Nights 2014!

Ladies and Gents of the Key:

Night of Nights 2014 is coming up on 12 July.  Many will recall that on that date in 1999 what was supposedly the last commercial Morse message in the US was sent.  But also on that date the Maritime Radio Historical Society was formed with the mission to preserve the skills, traditions and culture of those who came before us and who made the profession of radio telegrapher one of honor and skill.

On the first night of nights in 2000 we put KPH back in the air.  Each year since, the signals of once silent coast coast stations have risen from the static to re-create those golden years when coast stations stood shoulder to shoulder across the marine bands.

This year a total of eight coast station will be on the air including three US Coast Guard stations!  This will be your chance to hear KPH, KFS, KSM, WLO, KLB, NMC, NMW and NMQ on the air again.

You can join us on the air or in person at the RCA receive site in the Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California.  See a real working coast station in action!  Have a commercial radiotelegraph ticket?  Sit the circuit at KPH, KFS or KSM (or all three!) and have your license endorsed to that effect.  Or operate our amateur station K6KPH, no license required.  We’ll set aside a guest operating position for you.  And maybe best of all, you’ll get to meet and talk with the real radio heroes and heroines who pounded brass professionally at “The wireless giant of the pacific”.

Want the details?  The best bet is to subscribe to our email Newsletter (free, and you can unsubscribe at any time).  A special Night of Nights edition will be published in the next couple of days with all the call sign and frequency details, plus articles on the new museum exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of Marconi operations in California and two technical articles.

You can subscribe via our Web site at http://www.radiomarine.org 

VY 73,

RD

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Richard Dillman, AE-12-446
Chief Operator, Coast Station KSM
Maritime Radio Historical Society
http://www.radiomarine.org