Agenda
2310 UTC – Welcome from Beth Caltagirone, Marketing Manager2313 UTC – Master of Ceremonies, Tim Gorman, Director of Operations
2321 UTC – Final Messages Begin
2321 UTC - SVC Message from the Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien
Message Sent By: Rod Deakin, Radio Officer
GLOBE WIRELESS HALF MOON BAY CA ATTN: MR KEN JONES X ON THIS OCCASION OF THE END OF COMMERCIAL SHIP-TO-SHORE RADIOTELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION IN NORTH AMERICA THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF THE SS JEREMIAH OBRIEN ALONG WITH THE OFFICERS AND STAFF OF THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL WISH TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT OF OUR EFFORTS AND ESPECIALLY FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO OUR SUCCESSFUL NORMANDY VOYAGE X WE WISH YOU AND GLOBE WIRELESS CONTINUED SUCCESS IN YOUR ENDEAVOR X BEST REGARDS SS JEREMIAH OBRIEN/KXCH 2331 UTC from the Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien
Message Sent By: Rod Deakin, Radio Officer
Message Text:
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON WASHINGTON DC DEAR PRESIDENT CLINTON X HISTORY IS MADE ON THIS DAY AS WE EMBARK ON A NEW ERA OF MARITIME COMMUNICATION X THIS OCCASION MARKS THE CLOSURE OF SHIP-TO-SHORE RADIOTELEGRAPH OPERATIONS FROM THE LAST FOUR COMMERCIAL COASTAL STATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA STILL USING THIS TIME HONORED MEDIUM ON JULY 13 AT 0000UTC X PLEASE ACCEPT THIS FINAL RADIOTELEGRAPH MESSAGE FROM THE LIBERTY SHIP SS JEREMIAH OBRIEN IN SAN FRANCISCO AS A TOKEN OF THIS HISTORIC EVENT X BEST REGARDS SS JEREMIAH OBRIEN/KXCH 2340 UTC Final Closure of WCC
Message Sent By: Walter J. Kane III, Regional Sales Director
Frequencies: 4310.0 6376.0 12826.5 16972.0 17117.6 Khz
Message Text:
CQ DE WCC IN 1901, CALLSIGN WCC WAS ASSIGNED TO THE SOUTH WELLFLEET MASSACHUSETTS WIRELESS TELEGRAPH FACILITY OPERATED BY GUGLIELMO MARCONI. MORSE CODE SIGNALS FROM WCC HAVE BEEN HEARD AROUND THE WORLD EVER SINCE. TODAY WE RETIRE WCC FROM WIRELESS TELEGRAPH OPERATIONS. WCC WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE THE MARITIME COMMUNITY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE GLOBAL RADIO NETWORK OPERATED BY GLOBE WIRELESS. AR DE WCC SK 2347 UTC Final Closure of WNU
Message Sent By: Rory Davis, Chief Engineer
Frequencies: 4310.0 6376.0 12826.5 16972.0 17117.6 Khz
Message Text:
CQ DE WNU PEARL RIVER RADIO/WNU NOW CEASES RADIOTELEGRAPH SERVICE AFTER EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS OF CONTINUOUS OPERATION. WE WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE THE MARINER THROUGH OUR GLOBE EMAIL SERVICE AS PART OF THE GLOBE WIRELESS NETWORK. AR 73 DE WNU CL 2352 UTC Final Closure of KPH
Message Sent By: Paul Zell, Coastal Station Operator
Frequencies: 8444.5, 17184.8, 500
Message Text:
CQ DE KPH WE NOW CLOSE THE RADIOTELEGRAPH OPERATION OF STATION KPH. SINCE 1904, STATION KPH HAS DISTINGUISHED ITSELF AS ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED CALL SIGNS IN THE WORLD, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO AS PART OF THE GLOBAL RADIO NETWORK OF HF STATIONS NW CL DE KPH SK 2359 UTC Final Closure of KFS
Message Sent By: Tim Gorman, Director of Operations
Frequencies: 8444.5, 17184.8, 500
Message Text:
About the Operators:
CQ DE KFS THIS IS THE FINAL CW TRANSMISSION FROM STATION KFS - THE LAST COMMERCIAL RADIOTELEGRAPH STATION IN NORTH AMERICA. APPROPRIATELY, WE CLOSE CW AND EMBARK ON A NEW ERA OF COMMUNICATION WITH SAMUEL F.B. MORSE'S WORDS OF 155 YEARS AGO BT NW CL 73 BT WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT BT DE KFS SK Rod Deakin, Radio Officer SS Jeremiah O’Brien
Rod started his career in radio telegraphy at twelve years old when he became a HAM radio operator. He completed his college studies at San Jose State. Rod joined the US Navy in 1968. Since 1972, Rod has been working throughout Silicon Valley as an Electrical Engineer. Rod is currently employed with Globe Wireless.
Walter J. Kane III, Regional Sales Director
Walter’s career in marine radio communications began in 1973 when he joined the U.S. Coast Guard as a Radioman. In 1978, Walter obtained his FCC Third-Class Radiotelegraph license and found employment at RCA’s Chatham Radio (WCC). By September 1979, Walter had earned his FCC First-Class Radiotelegraph license with RADAR endorsement and his USCG Merchant Marine Officer license. Over the next thirteen years, Walter served as a Radio Officer aboard numerous U.S. flag merchant vesssels, and worked as a coast station operator at WSC and KLC. In April 1993, Walter joined Globe Wireless as a coast station operator. His first assignment was at the CW SuperStation, located in Half Moon Bay, California, where he remotely controlled transmitters and receivers for WCC, WNU, KPH and KFS. Additionally, he served as a field service technician, installing GlobeEmail systems on various vessels. In May 1999, Walter was awarded the "Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement" from the Veterans Wireless Operators Association in recognition of "his alertness to radio signals that saved a life at sea". Walter currently oversees the Americas Regional Sales Office located in Louisiana. He and his wife Maggie reside in Picayune, Mississippi with their daughter Colleen Michelle.
Rory Davis, Chief Engineer
Rory started his career as an USCG Radioman and Electronics Technician. He was employed by the state of Alaska as an Electronics Technician and later as a computer graphics field service engineer. Rory was a Radio/Electronics Officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine and was certified as Master Radio/Electronics Officer by the American Radio Association. He served in Desert Storm/Desert Shield and Operation Restore Hope (Mogadishu, Somalia) as a Radio Electronics Officer aboard several Military Sealift Command vessels. He holds an FCC First Class Radiotelegraph license, an FCC General Radiotelephone license, both with ship RADAR endorsement, and holds an Amateur Radio call sign N7CR. Rory has been with Globe Wireless as Chief Engineer for five years where his primary job function is the design, construction and maintenance of shore station systems. Rory resides on a few acres in rural southern Mississippi with his wife Linda, a few chickens, ducks and geese.
Paul Zell, Coastal Station Operator
Paul began his communications career with the Army Security Agency as a Morse intercept operator. In 1962, he moved into commercial radio at the present KFS site as a "Radio Operator A". After one year, Paul became a full fledged radio operator working KFS/KTK. Paul was also completing his college education during this time. After graduation, he decided to transfer to Seattle Radio KLB. At KLB, Paul’s responsibilities were to oversee radio operations, act as transmitter technician and the service clerk. In 1983, Paul returned to KFS where he resumed his duties as a radio operator, Sitor operator and service clerk. Throughout the last sixteen years, Paul has experienced first hand the progression of communication as Globe Wireless grew from one (KFS) straight forward CW/Sitor operation to three (WCC, WNU, KPH) CW stations worldwide using the innovations that have evolved.
Tim Gorman, Director of Operations at KFS
Tim has been a CW operator with KFS for twenty years. He started his career in radio shortly after high school. Tim joined the USCG where he attended radio school. Tim’s first official radio operator assignment was at radio station Adak/NOX (operated by USCG) in the Aleutians. Later he transferred to station NMC, an USCG Communications station in San Francisco. After four years in the USCG, Tim joined KFS as a radio operator in 1979 and currently oversees operations at KFS for Globe Wireless. He resides in Vacaville, California with his wife Angelique and three sons: Ryan, Joseph and Hugh.
