Thursday, July 09, 2009

Updated Night of Nights X Frequency List

Dean, W9WGV, was nice enough to assemble all this into a nice table. All frequencies, of course, are good old Morse code in CW or MCW:

MRHS Night of Nights X
Courtesy of Dean Lewis/W9WGV

kHz.......Station.........Ship Calling
426.......KPH, KSM..........500.0
488.......KLB.................4184.0
500.......KPH, KSM, KLB..6276.0
2055.5...WLO...............8368.0
2063.0*..KLB...............12552.0
3550.0...K6KPH............16736.0
4247.0...KPH................22280.5
4343.0...WLO
6474.0...KSM
6477.5...KPH
7050.0...K6KPH
8582.5*..KLB
8642.0...KPH
8658.0...WLO
12695.5..KFS
12808.5..KPH
12992.0..WLO
12993.0..KSM
14050.0..K6KPH
16968.5..WLO
17016.8..KPH
17026.0..KFS (after 0430Z)
22477.5..KPH
* Tentative
KLB might not use HF this year.

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It might also be worthwhile to give a listen for CWA, Cerritos Radio in Uruguay. While this station is not directly participating in Night of Nights, it is one of the few CW coastal stations still taking traffic and sending weather/MSI information (in Spanish).

Morgan, AL0I, reports their active frequencies as:

421.5 kHz, A1A, A2A
4346, 8602, 12750, 17230 kHz, A1A

These are +/- around 300 Hz, and skeds don't necessarily start right on the hour. Listed times for MSI and weather are 0000, 1400, and 1900 UTC.

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US Coast Guard stations will not participate this year.

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Remember, this is a public event. If you are in the area you are invited to join MRHS at the RCA receive site, 17000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd in the Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco. If using a computer mapping program add "Inverness" after the address above even though the station is well beyond that town. (R. Dillman)