Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

[A. Joseph Ross]

Kinda like cell phone numbers.

Is there any significance to having one or two letters before the number?


On 6/14/2019 8:14 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Bob DeMattia wrote:
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>> Ham Radio callsigns have few geographics restrictions.  Callsigns can 
>> begin
>> in A, K, N, or W regardless of their location.
>> The digit has some meaning with  sequentially assigned callsigns 
>> where the
>> digit is assigned by one of ten areas:
>
>> 1 - The New England States
>> 2 - NY/NJ
>> 3 - PA/MD/DE
>> and so on.
>
> Yes, but unlike broadcasting stations, ham station licenses aren't 
> tied to any particular location. The number will indicate where the 
> licensee was located when his or her license was granted, but if he or 
> she moves, the call sign will not change. I am WB2AVC, having received 
> that call sign when I was living in upstate New York in 1975, but I've 
> been living in the Boston area for more of the last forty years.
>
>
> Rob
>

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