Historic KPH Photos

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Post war KPH, crammed into a single room at the point-to-point receive site at Point Reyes. A two position receiving station was set up in the former station lunch room. The resident point-to-point men thought it was bad enough to have KPH and its rowdy crew invade their formerly quiet domain. Stealing the lunch room probably didn't make them any more popular!

Space was so tight that during the Christmas rush they would put a guy out in the hall with a set of earphones and a small table to copy the extra traffic. The antenna wires coming in through the window are RCA balanced lines designed for the purpose. Receivers are a National HRO, RCA AR-8506 and three RCA CR-88As. Auxiliary equipment includes Teletype machines, a Kleinschmidt perferator and a Morse keying head. It must have been a busy place!

In 1959 the KPH operating room moved to the rear of the building, where it is today. The space was made available when the point- to-point receivers upstairs were changed from battery sets to AC sets. That change allowed the battery room downstairs to be emptied, making space for KPH.

After KPH moved to the rear of the building the lunch room was restored until Ed Brennan's tenure as manager (1977-1981). Then it was moved to its current location at the rear of the building near the CW operating room.

Another view of the early post war receiving positions at KPH in the former lunch room area at the front of the building. The two operators on duty are Harold Zimmer "HZ" (with the suspenders) and Arnold Hansen "AH".