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Cypress Tree Tunnel 🌲🌲 Maritime Radio History Society

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Cypress Tree Tunnel 🌲🌲 Maritime Radio History Society

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Cypress Tree Tunnel 🌲🌲 Maritime Radio History Society

Name: Cypress Tree Tunnel 🌲🌲 Maritime Radio History Society
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Point Reyes National Seashore

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Location: Marin County, California, United States

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1. Lagunitas Creek Bridge – Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve loop from Petaluma Center

50.6km

02:22

530m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Chicken Ranch Beach – Historic B Ranch 🐮 loop from Petaluma Center

41.5km

02:00

590m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Historic B Ranch 🐮 loop from Bloomfield

63.2km

03:10

980m

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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May 14, 2020

Planted around 1930, the Monterey cypress that now create the "tree tunnel" at the Point Reyes Receiving Station is a signature landscape feature that evokes some of the prestige that RCA placed in this profitable, historic operation, now the park's North District Operations Center. Guglielmo Marconi developed wireless communication in 1896 and later moved to the US to develop his intercontinental communications company, which was bought by the US government after WWI showed its strategic value. Marconi. sited and commissioned the building of a wireless telegraphy transmitting station west of Bolinas and a receiving station in Marshall on Tomales Bay in 1913–14. The Marshall station was supplanted in 1929 to support the growing point-to-point business in the Pacific 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, ship-to-shore Morse communications, and teletype—some of it dating to the World War II-era—remains intact, has been restored and made functional, and is used to broadcast on numerous frequencies, including KPH. Visit our Communications at Point Reyes page to learn more about this history. nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/kph_treetunnel.htm
For a detailed history see ptreyes.org/activities/marconi-rca-wireless-stations

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Location: Marin County, California, United States

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Cypress Tree Tunnel 🌲🌲 Maritime Radio History Society

1. Lagunitas Creek Bridge – Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve loop from Petaluma Center

2. Chicken Ranch Beach – Historic B Ranch 🐮 loop from Petaluma Center

3. Historic B Ranch 🐮 loop from Bloomfield

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