[QCWA] 9YI / W9YI / W0YI & WOI

[John]

The ham station I operated at Iowa State in the 1960's is WoYI.

It was first licensed as 9YI and, as I recall, on the air in 
1906.  It was latter split into two stations, WOI (where I worked as 
an engineer while in college the first time) and the ham station WoYI.

Of course 9YI predated the FCC by many years.  There are some 
pictures on-line and some history put together by WoWOI.

http://jeff560.tripod.com/woi.html

John,  WoGN


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don W7WLL <w7wll at arrl.net>
>To: Ronf404 <ronf404 at aol.com>; QCWA (Listserv) <qcwa at maillman.qth.net>
>Sent: Tue, Dec 1, 2015 7:56 pm
>Subject: Re: [QCWA] Ham calls
>
>It certainly appears that the Y was used for school clubs (colleges and
>
>universities) and was in place for some period of time, but I've been unable
>to find any substantiation of this being a FCC instituted practice in FCC or
>other records I've been able to locate on line. Wonder if anyone has any
>hard information on this?? Same holds true for the assignments of the W, F
>and N suffix's with the K prefix for the military clubs. One can see it
>happened but what internal rules or regs did the FCC follow in this practice
>for the short period of time it was done?
>
>Curious, yup killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. Must be an
>old guy thing.