[Milsurplus] 1940s callsigns

Sun, 5 May 2002 21:24:58 -0500

On Sun, 5 May 2002 19:22:07 EDT [email protected] writes:

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> 
> WXFJ   "around"  3.6 and 6.4 Mcs. and also maybe 5207 kcs.
> 
> KFS           "       6.3

This was the loooong running coast station operated out of San Francisco.
 I think even back then, the transmitters were up around Bodega Bay.

> 
> ALB? KLB ?        5960 kcs.
> 
> KBNU                 5995 kcs.
> 
> I was looking in a Berne List and found KBNU, and it sez something 
> like "aeronautic ground mobile station" in Alaska, this for 1947.
> 
> I think there was also an Alaska listing for a WXF. Sometimes 
> callsigns
> were assigned in such a way, around a main call, that i'm wondering
> if WXFJ was related to this listing. 
> 
I am curious about this one.  As with ham calls where no X follows the
number in 1X3 and 2X3 configurations, as the experimental balls are
formatted like the KI2XFB I once operated, I believe before WW2, that
KXxx and WXxx calls were experimental broadcast (including air and
maritime broadcast) stations.  And, I think the W prefix puts it east of
the Mississippi.

> I only guess the L&L ownership of this radio because i bought it
> with another HRO Jr. that had Alaska cannery stations listed on
> its coil. This HRO-5 may have had some other role, like at some
> kind of airfield station.
> Would appreciate much, any kind of help.
> Hue Miller
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