Re: Some WBUR history

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 18 Jan 2002 at 8:14, Shawn Mamros wrote:

> As to the (oft repeated) guesses that W and K stand for something or
> other, they don't.  They were assigned to the US in an international
> treaty way back when.  (I can never remember the year, but it had to have
> been before 1920.)

But that just begs the question.  Many of the international callsign 
prefixes do correspond to the names of the country in question, such as 
"C" for Canada and Cuba.  So why did the US get W, K, and N?  (I 
understand the US also has "A."  At least that one stands for America.")

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