{"id":38460,"date":"2019-07-12T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38460"},"modified":"2019-07-11T22:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:37:32","slug":"night-of-nights-cw-event-returns-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/night-of-nights-cw-event-returns-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNight of Nights\u201d CW Event Returns Tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maritime-Historical-Night-of-Nights-e1562898985768.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38462\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maritime-Historical-Night-of-Nights-e1562898985768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Brian Smith (W9IND), who shares the following announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>\u201cNight of Nights\u201d CW Event Returns Friday (U.S. Time)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was 20 years ago today,\u201d say members of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, but they\u2019re not covering a famous Beatles song.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll certainly be on key, however, when they fire up two maritime CW stations, KPH and KFS, and their amateur radio club station, K6KPH, for the 20th annual \u201cNight of Nights\u201d at 8:01 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, July 12\/0001 UTC Saturday, July 13. (Alas, several previously participating stations will be absent again this year, including ship-to-shore stalwart WLO of Mobile, Alabama, and a quartet of Coast Guard stations.)<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s event marks the date in 1999 when commercial Morse code operations ceased in the United States. One year later, the preservation-minded MRHS staged its first \u201cNight of Nights,\u201d treating shortwave radio enthusiasts to the dits and dahs of historic maritime station KPH and other callsigns that were once presumed dead on shortwave CW frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the society has put out a special appeal to anyone (licensed or not) with CW proficiency to help operate K6KPH. While KPH and KFS transmit \u201ccode wheels\u201d (repeating messages), personal messages, and tributes to long-gone maritime stations and operators, K6KPH will make CW contacts with other amateur stations on 3550, 7050, 14050 and 21050 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>Whether reporting for CW duty or not, the public is welcome to observe today\u2019s event and tour the facility, located at 17400 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Doors open at 3 p.m. local (Pacific) time.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re not within driving distance, you can tune in the Morse signals on the following medium wave and shortwave frequencies:<\/p>\n<p><b>KPH: <\/b>\u00a0426, 500, 4742.0, 6477.5, 8642.0, 12808.5, 17016.8, 22477.5 kHz<\/p>\n<p><b>KFS:\u00a0 <\/b>12695.5 kHz<\/p>\n<p>Reception reports go to P.O. Box 392, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956. Please include an SASE if you\u2019d like a QSL.<\/p>\n<p>The following links provide additional information:<\/p>\n<p><b>Maritime Radio Historical Society:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomarine.org\">http:\/\/www.radiomarine.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1109843077277&amp;ca=156b371f-da9f-4fed-8819-4bb55bd7bd44\">http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1109843077277&amp;ca=156b371f-da9f-4fed-8819-4bb55bd7bd44<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1109843077277&amp;ca=b54f353c-4692-4564-b79a-0059721f9206\">http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1109843077277&amp;ca=b54f353c-4692-4564-b79a-0059721f9206<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>National Park Service: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pore\/planyourvisit\/events_nightofnights.htm\">https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pore\/planyourvisit\/events_nightofnights.htm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, Brian&#8230;that &#8220;being on key&#8221; bit? Clever! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to some sweet CW music on the Night of Nights! Thank you for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Brian Smith (W9IND), who shares the following announcement: \u201cNight of Nights\u201d CW Event Returns Friday (U.S. Time)\u00a0 \u201cIt was 20 years ago today,\u201d say members of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, but they\u2019re not covering a famous Beatles song. They\u2019ll certainly be on key, however, when they fire up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288],"tags":[3963,90,7885,7279,456],"class_list":["post-38460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-brian-smith","tag-cw","tag-kfs","tag-kph","tag-night-of-nights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-a0k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33166,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/night-of-nights-returns-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":38460,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Night of Nights&#8221; Returns Tonight!","author":"Thomas","date":"July 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Brian Smith (W9IND), who writes: The cast may be smaller than in previous years, but the \u201cNight of Nights\u201d nostalgia show will go on. 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I\u2019m sure you\u2019re familiar with this one-night-a-year happening, in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Current Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Current Events","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/current-events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Photo: US Coast Guard","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Mellon717_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Mellon717_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Mellon717_1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20006,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/night-of-nights-xvi-july-12-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":38460,"position":3},"title":"Night of Nights XVI: July 12, 2016","author":"Thomas","date":"July 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: Please read Brian's update regarding frequencies. 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