CTARC The Last Morse Code Maritime Radio Station in North America - 11 Dec '19

Here is a link to a short but fascinating video about last functioning maritime radio station using Morse Code in the USA - The Bolinas Radio Station at Point Reyes in California - call sign KPH.

While Morse radio telegraphy operators have all but disappeared from ships on the high seas, there are still a few in operation. KPH still services them.

See the video [here].

Photo by Frank Schulenburg - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23112321

CTARC Centenary for WWV - 25 Sep '19

The well-known American time-signal station at Fort Collins Colorado, call sign WWV, was congratulated recently by the U S Department of Defence on the occasion of its forthcoming Centenary. WWV and its sister time signal stations have been on-air since May 1920.

A special announcement and notice of a Special-Event ham radio station, WW0WWV, was made during their time signal transmission.

Listen to a recording of that announcement [here].
[Note - the link requires Adobe Flash to be installed on your PC]

CTARC KPH Night of Nights - 12 Jul '19

Between 1999 and 2000, commercial maritime radio traffic using Morse Code was phased out, bringing the end of an era in marine radio communications. Officially, that is.

Fortunately, on 12 July 2000 the Maritime Radio Historical Society was founded with the goal of maintaining the traditions of maritime Morse Code by restoring historic coast station KPH back into service. The first steps toward that goal were taken and on 12 July 2000 the first Night of Nights (named by MRHS co-founder Tom Horsfall) was held at the KPH transmit site in Bolinas, California on the West Coast of the USA.

Every year since then the MRHS has held the  Night of Nights on 12 July with opening transmissions taking place x number of years and one minute since that supposed last transmission in 1999.

They will be on air again this year on 12 July 2019, and those CW ham radio operators with an interest in monitoring this interesting event may find out more [here].

The RCA Receive Station at Point Reyes, California

A volunteer marine CW operator at KPH