Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

[Rob Landry]

Yes, that's right.


Rob

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, A. Joseph Ross wrote:

> I think I remember once reading that WQXR in New York was originally an 
> experimental station, with the call W2XR.  The original founders played 
> classical music on the station and developed a following.  When they decided 
> to go for a commercial license, they replaced the 2 with a Q so as to have as 
> small a change as possible.
>
>
> On 6/14/2019 8:23 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Bob DeMattia wrote:
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>>> 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
>> 
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