RCA Pacific High Seas Transmitter Station, KPH

 radio station, historic landmark

RCA / Marconi Wireless Stations: Guglielmo Marconi sited and commissioned the building of wireless telegraphy transmitting station in Bolinas and receiving station in Marshall, on Tomales Bay, in 1913-14. They formed the foundation for the most successful and powerful ship to shore and land station, known as “KPH”, on the Pacific Rim. The Marshall station was replaced in 1929 by a new Art Deco-designed facility at Point Reyes Beach on the “G” Ranch. Few of the succeeding generations of antennas, arranged in “farms”, remain at the two sites. However, the radio equipment, some of it dating to the World War II-era, remains intact, functional, and used for ceremonial occasions by former RCA key operators. The Monterey cypress “tree tunnel” at the Point Reyes station is a signature landscape feature that evokes some of the prestige that RCA placed in this profitable, historic operation. Studies are underway to ultimately list both National Seashore sites and the Marshall facility, now a California State Parks conference center, together as a multiple property National Historic Landmark.

Building 2A, which houses the original transmitters, was added to the western side of Building 2 in 1959. The high power point-to-point transmitters were originally located on the second floor of Building 2. Building 2 now serves as the offices for Commonweal.

Lee de Forest started wireless station PH ("Palace Hotel") in San Francisco in 1903. It was later absorbed into American Marconi Company

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