Volunteers Bring Last Commercial Maritime Station Back on Air for 26th Year
/The silencing of the last maritime radio station in the US in California in 1999 gave voice to an effort to create the Maritime Radio Historical Society, K6KPH, to preserve its treasured Morse Code tradition.
Every year, the event, "Night of Nights," celebrates this tradition on the anniversary of the day that the station signed off - ensuring that 12th July would not mark the station's final signoff, after all. Broadcast engineers, radio operators and history enthusiasts have seen to that. They volunteered to bring new life to the receiving site at the Point Reyes National Seashore and to the Bolinas Radio transmitter site, returning Morse service to the station known as KPH/KFS.
This year's 26th edition of "Night of Nights" is a collaboration of modern skills and classic style equipment, including "Marconi T" type antennas at both the transmitter and receive sites. KPH and KFS will be operating on assigned commercial frequencies, while K6KPH will be operating on several HF amateur radio bands.
For times, frequencies and QSL information, please check the Maritime Radio Historical Society website - http://www.radiomarine.org.
