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Morse Code at MRHS

17400 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness, CA 94937, USA

A field recording by aalonzo made in Petaluma, United States on 6 October 2018, in the afternoon. Soundscape: sea & waves and trains & stations.

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Morse Code at MRHS
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Spectrogram of Morse Code at MRHS
Spectrogram of the full recording (time left to right, frequency bottom to top), generated by the Internet Archive.

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Recordist's notes

Every Saturday from 12pm to 5pm a small number of dedicated volunteers of the Maritime Radio Historical Society kick open their doors for tours in an effort to preserve maritime radio, amongst a number of other things. MRHS is located at the old KPH Radio Station located in the Marconi RCA building. The recorded sounds are of morse code being sent out, received and converted to back to the english language on an old typewriter from the last remaining Morse code station on the West Coast. This was recorded with Zoom H4n hand recorder and two Rode NTG-2 (Super-Cardioid) microphones.

Written by aalonzo on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Petaluma is a town of about 60,438 people in California, United States.

Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n and Røde microphones. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.

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