Maritime Radio Historical Society's 'Night of Nights' Event

It’s hard to believe that this will be the eigth annual Night of Nights. What began as a modest effort on the part of a small band of dedicated enthusiasts has grown into a truly global event.

KPH, the ex-RCA coast station located north of San Francisco, will return to the air for commemorative broadcasts on July 12 at 8:01 PM EDT (July 13 at 00.01 UTC), 8 years and one minute after what was thought to be the last commercial Morse transmission in the USA. Now the Maritime Radio Historical Society’s own KSM carries on the tradition of commercial Morse.

These on-the-air events are intended to honor the men and women who followed the radio-telegraph trade on ships and at coast stations around the world and made it one of honor and skill.

Veteran Morse operators, including former KPH staff members, will be on duty at the receiving station at Point Reyes, California listening for calls from ships and sending messages just as they did for so many years before Morse operations were shut down.

KPH will transmit on 426, 500, 4247, 6477.5, 8642, 12808.5, 17016.8 and 22477.5 kHz. KPH operators will listen for calls from ships on ITU Channel 3 in all bands. The Channel 3 frequencies are 4184, 6276, 8368, 12552, 16736 and 22280 kHz on HF and 500 kHz on MF.

Amateur radio station K6KPH will transmit and listen on 3550, 7050 and 14050 kHz for KPH, KFS and KSM reception reports. Professional operators will be at the key and commercial procedures will be used.

But please don’t hesitate to call, not matter what your code speed or experience level may be.

K6KPH verification reports may be sent to:
Ms. D.A. Stoops, P.O.Box 381, Bolinas CA 94924-0381, USA.