Saturday, July 11, 2020

Night Of Nights to go ON!

Night of Nights 12 July
When:
Sunday, 12 July 2020
Description:
Night of Nights
http://www.radiomarine.org/
12 July every year. Begins at 0300pm Pacific time on 12 July.  The first transmission will be at 0501pm Pacific time (0000 UTC 13 July).
Thanks for the listing.  This year the station facilities are closed due to COVID-19 precautions enacted by the National Park Service.  So we will not be able to transmit on our usual KPH commercial frequencies.  However we are working hard (testing underway as I write) to remote key two full power amateur transmitters on 3550kc and 7050kc under the call W6AWO (the K6KPH call is restricted to use by transmitters actually at the Bolinas transmit site).  The transmitters are at Valley Springs, California and the control point is at Inverness, California.  Test transmissions from these transmitters should begin shortly.  On Night of Nights the traditional opening message will be sent by these transmitters after which W6AWO and other MRHS member stations will stand by for calls.  Live keying (as opposed to sending a file like the opening message) may be a little stilted due to the way the control software works.  Speed will be 15wpm.

VY 73,