Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

[Jeff Lehmann]

MIT has both W1MX and W1XM.

Jeff Lehmann - N1ZZN

-----Original Message-----
From: Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> On Behalf Of Rob Landry
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 8:24 AM
To: Bob DeMattia <bob.bosra@demattia.net>
Cc: Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia



On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Bob DeMattia wrote:

> Just like commericial like the commercial callsigns WBZ, WGY, WLS, 
> many amateur callsigns of today still have the 1920's callsign system legacy.
> University stations like MIT (W1XM),  WPI (W1YK),  and Yale (W1YU), 
> began as 1XM, 1YK, and 1YU respectively.

I think MIT is actually W1MX. Call sign suffixes beginning with X used to be reserved for "experimental" radio stations.


Rob