“Beginning with the introduction of licensing in late 1912, the standard practice had been to assign call letters<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign> starting with "W" to radio stations east of the Mississippi River. However, KDKA happened to receive its assignment during a short period during which land stations were being issued call letters from a sequential block of "K" call letters that had previously been assigned only to ship stations. Although the original policy was restored a few months later, KDKA was permitted to keep its non-standard call sign.[11]<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDKA_%28AM%29#cite_note-11>”
Chuck Jack Hawley KE9UW Sent from my iPhone, cjack On Oct 6, 2020, at 12:36 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: So how did KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa become a Western callsign? 73, Don W3FPR On 10/6/2020 1:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: More than you ever wanted to know about the convention of giving "W" callsigns to broadcast stations east of the Mississippi and "K" callsigns to the west: https://earlyradiohistory.us/kwtrivia.htm ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
