KFS Artifacts (In RCA KPH Receiver Building, Point Reyes, CA)

RCA KPH Receiver Station, Pt. Reyes, CA, 8 March 2003. These are artifacts from KFS, another high seas HF CW station in the SF Bay Area. To the left is an alarm clock (note the little switches around the dial) that could be programmed to remind the operator that traffic for a particular ship was due to be sent a certain time. In the center is a keying selector to switch among transmitters; note the light warning of the silent period. This facility, which housed the receivers and operating positions for KPH, the RCA high seas morse code and SITOR service, closed in 1997. The transmitters are in Bolinas (about 15 miles south). KPH is now maintained (and occasionally put back on the air) by the Marine Radio Historical Society. The site is largly as it was left when it was decommissioned in 1997. Image taken with a Nikon D-100 digital camera, handheld. Copyright © 2003 by Matt Blaze. All rights reserved. You may not copy, modify or use this image for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without permission. Click here for more Point Reyes Radio photos. Click here for my home page.