[GreenKeys] Fwd: [ham-hist] Hugo Gernsback's callsign?

[Jeffrey Angus]

It was in mid year 1925 that the 58 year old immigrant from Luxembourg, Hugo
Gernsback, received a permit to operate a portable shortwave station at 
the Hotel
McAlpin in New York City, under the experimental callsign 2XAL.

It was on October 1, 1928, that the experimental callsign 2XAL was 
modified, along
with all other similarly identified stations in the United States, to 
W2XAL. The initial
letter W was allocated to the United States in a recent international 
radio convention
over in Berlin, Germany.

The key phrase here is Experimental and not Amateur.
Despite the appearance of what appears to be an amateur call sign.

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Jeff-1.0
www.foxsmercantile.com

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