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2013 Event has been completed!

NIGHT OF NIGHTS 2013 FINAL

INFORMATION

FLASH!

USCG
WILL PARTICIPATE IN NIGHT
OF NIGHTS!


Event Date:
12 July 2013 Pacific Daylight Time
First Transmission form MRHS Stations:
5:01pm Pacific Daylight Time 12 July, 0001Z 13 July

Historic coast stations KPH, KFS and KSM will return to the air
RCA "H Set" Transmitter 298 to be on the air USCG Coast Stations NMC and NMQ will be on the air
Historic Stations WLO and KLB may join the event K6KPH will be listening for calls and  signal reports


Join us in person or on the air
 
Morse code. It's  just beeps in the air. Yet on 12 July 1999 some very tough looking  grizzled old radio pioneers had tears in their eyes as the last  commercial Morse code radiogram was sent. It was the end of an era. And  as the last beeps faded away into the static they witnessed the end of  the career to which they had devoted their lives.
 
These  men - and some women - had stood watch over the airwaves on shore and  at sea. Theirs was mostly the business of maritime commerce. But when  their ship was in peril they were called upon to send the most  electrifying three letters in radio, S O S, knowing  that all their fellow radio operators would press their earphones close  to get every scrap of information and bring aid to their stricken ship.
 
Once, our coasts were dotted with great Morse code radio stations, all  communicating with ships at sea. They're all gone now... all except one,  the one they called the Wireless Giant of the Pacific, located at Point  Reyes.
 
On  that sad day in 1999 another event took place. The Maritime Radio  Historical Society (MRHS) was formed. We made it our life's work to  honor the men and women of wireless  by restoring that wireless giant.  One year and one minute later the giant's voice once again spanned the  oceas as we picked up the thread and kept the faith with
our colleagues  of the air.
 
Every  year since, in an event that became known as the Night of Nights, Morse code station KPH has returned to the air, joined by KFS and the station of the MRHS, KSM.
 
This year our friends and colleagues at USCG station NMC have labored mightily to bring that storied call sign back to life on Morse code for the evening along with NMQ in Cambria, CA.   
 
We hope that stations WLO and KLB will join us again as hey have in years past. 
 
This is a global and local event.  Hundreds of listeners around the world  will be waiting with their earphones on, waiting for the signals of the  great station to once again arc
over the dome of the Earth to their  receivers.  
 
You can be with us in person!
 
Dozens of people will join us at the RCA receiving  station in the Point Reyes National Seashore to watch as the signals are transmitted by hand using vintage telegraph keys. 
 
A guest operating position will  be available so bring your key and 'phones or use ours and operate K6KPH.  No license required!  So if you're an ex-commercial op who never became a ham here's your chance to sling some Morse again.  Or if you hold a current commercial radiotelegraph ticket you can operate KPH, KFS and/or KSM and have
your license endorse to that effect.   
 
 
Date: Friday 12 July 2013
Pacific Daylight Time  
Location: RCA receiving station,
17400 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Point Reyes National Seashore  
                 
Click HERE for a map of the location from Google Maps  
Time: Doors open at 3:00pm pdt,
first transmission 5:01pm pdt (0001gmt 13 July)
Refreshments: Served
Photographs: Encouraged
Tours: Given
 
None   of this would have been possible without the trust and vision of the   Point Reyes National  Seashore.  The only reason these facilities were   spared the bulldozer that visited all the others is that they are on park land.  And the only reason they have been restored to operation is   that the PRNS staff understood their importance and trusted the MRHS to restore them to life. 

THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE AND COMPLETE NIGHT OF NIGHTS 2013 INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT PRESS TIME BUT LAST MINUTE CHANGES MAY TAKE  PLACE

This year we will send last minute changes and signal reports by Twitter.  You can join Twitter free at:
https://www.twitter.com
and follow us at
@Radiomarine


MRHS
Stations


Sixteen transmitters will be on the air from the MRHS transmitter site in Bolinas.  That doesn't include transmitters held in ready reserve in case of failure.  Members of the
crack MRHS Transmitter Department and the H Set Team will be on hand to assure that all goes well.

> KPH:

Frequency           
Transmitter           
 Antenna

500/426               
Henry MF-5000D        Marconi
T
4247.0                 
RCA K
Set                 
Double Extended
Zepp
6477.5                 
RCA K
Set                 
Double Extended
Zepp
8642.0                 
RCA L
Set                 
Double Extended
Zepp
12808.5               
RCA L
Set                 
H over
2
17016.8               
RCA L
Set                 
H over 2

22477.5                RCA H Set
               
H over 2

The restoration of the H set has been chronicled in past issues of the Newsletter.  It will return to revenue service for the first time in decades for Night of Nights.  See Newsletter No. 38 for information about and photos of this magnificent transmitter.


FLASH!  We have just confirmed that Point Reyes National Seashore superintendent Cicely Muldoon will press the button to formally dedicate H Set Transmitter 298 and put it on the air for Night of Nights!

> KFS

Frequency           
Transmitter          
          Antenna

12695.5               
Press Wireless PW15    H over
2
17026.0               
Henry HF-5000D           
H over 2

> KSM

Frequency          
Transmitter        
            Antenna

500/426              
Henry MF-5000D           
Marconi
T
8438.3                
Henry HF-5000D           
Double Extended
Zepp
12993.0              
Henry HF-5000D            H over 2
16914.0
              Henry HF-5000D    
       H over 2

>
K6KPH

Frequency          
Transmitter                   
Antenna

3550.0                
Henry HF-5000D          
Double Extended
Zepp
7050.0                
RCA L
Set                    
Double Extended
Zepp
14050.0              
Henry HF-5000D           H
over
2
21050.0              
Henry HF-5000D           H
over 2

> Reception Reports

Reception reports and verification requests for the MRHS stations listed above may be sent to:

Maritime Radio Historical Society
PO Box 392
Point Reyes
Station, CA 94956
USA

> Station
Telephone

The receive site may be contacted by phone on +1 415-669-9646


USCG
Stations


> NMC
(Transmit Bolinas,
Receive Pt. Reyes)

Frequency           
Transmitter                  Antenna

448.0                   
Nautel ND2500TT/6    173' monopole
tower
472.0                   
Nautel ND2500TT/6    173' monopole
tower
500.0                   
Nautel ND2500TT/6    173' monopole
tower
6383.0                 
Harris RT-2200           
Conical
omni-directional
8574.0                 
Harris RT-2200           
Conical
omni-directional
17220.5*              
Harris RT-2200           
Conical omni-directional

> NMQ (Transmit Cambria,
Receive and Control Pt. Reyes)

Frequency           
Transmitter                 
Antenna

448.0                   
Nautel ND2500TT/6    173' monopole
tower
472.0                   
Nautel ND2500TT/6    173' monopole
tower
500.0                   
Nautel ND2500TT/6    173' monopole tower


>
Reception Reports


Reception reports and verification requests for the USCG stations listed above may be sent to:

Attn: OSCS Phil Marsh

USCG CAMSPAC Point Reyes
17000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
Point Reyes
Station, CA  94956
USA


Shipcom LLC
Stations



The participation of Shipcpm  LLC stations WLO and KLB was unconfirmed at press time but the stations used these frequencies for previous Night of Nights events.  We list them so you can make them part of your listening scan - just in case!

But Wait!  Just before pressing the Send button we received word that WLO and KLB will be on the air for Night of Nights
2013!

> WLO 


2055.5
4343.0
8658.0
12992.0
16968.5

>
KLB

488.0
500.0
8582.5


> Reception
Reports

No information is available for the Shipcom LLC stations
 

> Calling
Channels

All commercial and USCG stations listed above will listen for calls from ships on 500kc and on ITU Channel 3
HF:

4184.0
6276.0
8368.0
12552.0
16736.0
22280.5

Listen on these frequencies if you want to copy both sides of ship to shore contacts.


> Commemorative Messages

Was your father, uncle or grand dad a commercial op or amateur operator?  Would you like to send a commemorative message in their honor over KPH, KFS and  KSM?  We have sent several of these messages in past events and they were all very moving.  If you would like us to send such a message this year  please send it to us no later than Thursday 11 July pdt so we can be sure to include it.  Sent it to info@radiuomarine.org

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