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Night of Nights
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 38.095940, -122.947430
Historic RCA Coast Station KPH
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Update: Saturday, July 8, 2022: The Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS) and the National Park Service are sorry to announce that Night of Nights XXIV will NOT take place as a public event at the KPH transmit and receive sites due to COVID-19 precautions. However, vaccinated MRHS volunteers will be stationed at each site and will be transmitting and receiving messages on the usual K6KPH frequencies (3550, 7050, 14050) from 5:01 PM PDT until midnight on July 12 (0001 GMT until 0700 GMT 13 July 2021). At 5:01 pm PDT on July 12 (0001 GMT 13 July), the MRHS volunteers will send the traditional Night of Nights opening message. They will then stand by for calls or will call CQ NON or CQ NIGHT OF NIGHTS.
While it's disappointing for everyone that the Night of Nights tradition will be somewhat disrupted for a fourth year, the health and safety of park volunteers must come first. But rest assured that as soon as greater access to the transmit and receive sites becomes possible, members of the Maritime Radio Historical Society will be working hard to bring the equipment back on line and return stations KPH, KFS, and K6KPH to the air on a more regular basis.
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 http://www.radiomarine.org/.
KPH, the ex-RCA coast station located north of San Francisco, returns to the air for commemorative broadcasts on July 12 at 5:01 pm PDT (13 July at 0001 GMT). On July 12, 1999, the last commercial Morse transmission in the US. was believed 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).
Night of Nights is an annual event held on July 12 by the Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS) to commemorate the history of maritime radio and the closing of commercial Morse operations in the USA. These on-the-air events are intended to honor the men and women who followed the radiotelegraph trade on ships and at coast stations around the world and made it one of honor and skill.
Further information may be found on the Maritime Radio Historical Society website at http://www.radiomarine.org/ or by contacting Richard Dillman at +1 415-663-8982 or by email.
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