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Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Radio Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.
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Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Radio Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.
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These places are what the Internet looked like a century ago.
I should note that while the site had a number of discone antennas like this one, they were mostly there as backups in case the main antennas (including truly massive wire rhombics pointing toward various oceanic regions) or transmitter combiners failed. The old Bell System did not mess around.
Here, by the way, is what I believe was the last published frequency list and schedule for the High Seas service. (A souvenir of my last visit to the station before it went off the air.)
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The Marine Radio Historical Society has restored the CW (Morse code) stations at Point Reyes and operates KPH KSM and KFS (as well as ham station K6KPH, mostly on Saturdays.
More info at:
https://www.radiomarine.org
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Photo is of KPH during one of its operations.
@k8quinn@vivaldi.net yes, great folks!
@k8quinn @mattblaze I've been wanting to visit KPH. It looks like a really interesting place!
If I was a mariner today, I would want to make sure I've got a couple of short wave radios in case satellites become unavailable...
@douglasvb @k8quinn It’s absolutely worth a visit, and they’re really nice people.
@mattblaze@federate.social @k8quinn@vivaldi.net I think we might go that way in January for a long weekend so we'll be sure to stop by.
I've passed the building many times in the last 30 years but until a year or so ago I didn't realize what it was!