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

[Bruce Gentry]

To the end WQXR had a far better than average sound for an AM station. 
Whether they got permission from the FCC to continue wideband AM or used 
as much as they could without getting prosecuted to death I don't know, 
but they sounded very good. I also think they were the last commercial 
classical station in New York City, and perhaps in the country. AM 
stations could sound far better today on their  allotted bandwidth if 
they were allowed or required to convert to Single or Vestigial sideband 
and offset their carrier like analog TV stations. The FCC is concerned 
about the present state of waste of the AM broadcast band because it is 
important for emergencies and can be received with the simplest 
equipment. As far as experimental AM transmissions, in the late 1960s,  
a broadcast enginner I knew - probably SK now- and a cohort devised some 
sort of clandestine RTTY encoder to send the Associated Press news on 
the station's signal. They vehemently refused to discuss it with me.  I 
don't think it was carrier FSK because they used a modified FM stereo 
decoder board from a console hi-fi as part of the setup. It worked, but 
they abandoned it after a couple weeks.

      Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY

On 8/15/17 11:21 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     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.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Jeff-1.0
>> www.foxsmercantile.com
>>
>>
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