[QCWA] Newest to our On Line Museum

N0UF n0uf at kc.rr.com
Sun Mar 13 15:10:56 EST 2005


Check out the latest addition to our on line Museum. 
http://www.qcwa.org/w9xby_station.htm

This entry was precipitated by a poster I picked up at a flea market a week 
ago Saturday for the "Chuck Wagon Opera" on W9XBY.  W9XBY was one of four 
"Amateur" Hi-Fi AM experimental broadcast stations licensed by the FCC in 
1933.  The poster looks like it's for a commercial station but the call is 
strictly amateur.  In 1933 Missouri was in the 9th call area and the first 
letter of the prefix 'X' for experimental.

The four stations were:
    W1XBS, American-Republican, Waterbury, Connecticut
    W2XR,   John V. L. Hogan, Long Island City, New York
    W6XAI,  Pioneer Mercantile Co., Bakersfield, California
    W9XBY, First National Television, Inc., Kansas City
     |   |  |
     |   |  Experimental
     |   Call Area
     Prefix

73,
Bob N0UF
QCWA Webmaster 




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