{"id":41692,"date":"2020-01-20T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41692"},"modified":"2020-01-20T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:12:28","slug":"kph-article-on-techcrunch-and-bay-area-backroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/kph-article-on-techcrunch-and-bay-area-backroads\/","title":{"rendered":"KPH Article on TechCrunch and Bay Area Backroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33960\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1024px-Cypress_Tree_Avenue_at_KPH_Point_Reyes-e1536060594424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33960\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1024px-Cypress_Tree_Avenue_at_KPH_Point_Reyes-1024x635.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cypress tree avenue towards KPH. Photo by Frank Schulenburg via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Last Radio Station,&#8221; an article about maritime radio station, KPH, is up on TechCrunch ( <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/01\/18\/the-last-radio-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/01\/18\/the-last-radio-station\/<\/a> ).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zI9-SRqJrgE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KPH is silent on maritime frequencies, but through the hard work of volunteers continues operation 24\/7 with a 3-30MHz KiwiSDR receiver (<a href=\"http:\/\/198.40.45.23:8073\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/198.40.45.23:8073\/<\/a>) and various activities throughout the year. Full information on all things KPH can be found the excellent Maritime Radio Historical Society Website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomarine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.radiomarine.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Finally an excellent &#8220;Bay Area Backroads&#8221; episode about KPH is available <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GzN-D0yIkGQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Youtube<\/a>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzN-D0yIkGQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can you copy the CW message at the end of the show?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please comment if you can copy the CW message!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to much for sharing this, Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who writes: &#8220;The Last Radio Station,&#8221; an article about maritime radio station, KPH, is up on TechCrunch ( https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/01\/18\/the-last-radio-station\/ ). KPH is silent on maritime frequencies, but through the hard work of volunteers continues operation 24\/7 with a 3-30MHz KiwiSDR receiver (http:\/\/198.40.45.23:8073\/) and various activities throughout [&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":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[6546,3969,3962,7464,4091,8272,4093],"class_list":["post-41692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-van-hoy","tag-maritime-radio","tag-maritime-radio-historical-society-of-america","tag-point-reyes","tag-radio-history","tag-tech-crunch","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aQs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33959,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/atlas-obscura-features-kph-maritime-radio-receiving-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":41692,"position":0},"title":"Atlas Obscura features KPH Maritime Radio Receiving Station","author":"Thomas","date":"September 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Atlas Obscura via Eric McFadden) One of the most stunning sights of the Bay Area is the historic KPH Radio Station, also known as Marine Coast Station KPH. 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