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Alan Bloom-2

OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns

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

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Re: OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns

my grandfather used to sing on KDKA, when they had live entertainment in
their early days.....and grew up listening to KQV.....

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>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:
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Michael Poteet

Re: OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns

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Alan, thank you. That's an fascinating bit of history, always interesting
to me (at least).

A side note: the FM component of WRR (in Dallas) still is on the air. It's
the only Classical Music station in DFW (that I am aware of).

Mike W5FTD

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> 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:
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> https://earlyradiohistory.us/kwtrivia.htm
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Don Wilhelm

Re: OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns

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So how did KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa become a Western callsign?

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Don W3FPR

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Re: OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns

“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
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So how did KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa become a Western callsign?

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/6/2020 1:04 PM, [hidden email] 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
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