I'm pretty sure it was posted here on the Elecraft list as well as
CWops, NASOTA, and many club lists. KPH and a number of other museum
stations and ships gather on maritime MF and HF frequencies on the night
of 12 July each year at 0001 GMT, one minute after the final broadcast
~20 years ago. One of the only nights you can hear activity on the Holy
Frequency which is eerily silent the rest of the year. K6KPH comes up
on 3550 kcs, 7050 kcs, 14050 kcs, and several frequencies in the WARC
bands and will accept traffic and signal reports.
KPH will accept messages addressed to anyone who has an email address.
They send it as a PDF on an authentic radiogram form from KPH's heyday.
You must format it in "commercial style" which is a bit different than
amateur NTS format. Check out the Marine Historical Radio Society
[radiomarine.org] and look at the latest news letter. It is formatted
as a commercial message [note: CODH is one of several message classes,
it means "company deadhead", a non-revenue message within the company.
Your message would normally be class "P"]. Kind of a neat way to send
birthday and other greetings.
KPH/K6KPH is staffed on most Saturday afternoons from about 1800 to
2200-2300 GMT. They begin with PX [press], and then start their wheel
and look for ships. K6KPH usually comes up when the PX finishes.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 7/13/2019 6:36 AM, Bill wrote:
It sure would have been nice to have heard about this before it became
OLD NEWS. If there was an announcement made here, I never saw it.
Not everyone is plugged into to every nook and cranny of the radio
world. A small timely announcement of this event would have been
appreciated - by me and probably by others also.
I interviewed at WCC in the 70s and was offered a job. I declined -
fortunately. I have to say the entire operation was a step back in
time - even then. It was like being in the 40s as soon as you entered
the door.
Sorry to have missed this event.
Bill W2BLC
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