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

[Richard Knoppow]

     The clue is the X in the call. It would be interesting to know more 
about this station. A famous experimental call in NYC was W2XR owned by 
John V.L. Hogan. This was an experimental "high fidelity" station 
operating near the high end of the broadcast band with audio flat to 15 
KHz. When it became commercial the call was change to WQXR which looked 
and sounded much the same.

On 8/15/2017 7:20 AM, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
> 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
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