[Elecraft] OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns

Michael Poteet mcpoteet at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 13:33:01 EDT 2020


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


On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:04 AM <alan at elecraft.com> 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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